My Turbo Alero Update!!!

Alrighty here, for anyone who is interested or curious on how Project Mayhem is going, here we go!

Situation:
For those that don't know, had Turbo on car for about 4 months, sometimes ran great sometimes it didn’t run great (don't ask times cause never had a chance to), it was just a matter or tweaking on it. Once day noticed the oil pressure gauge flickering, checked connection and it was all good. Then another day saw a 3rd gen FD (see who figures this one out!), started out rolling at about 15mph, got up to about 105mph, we were pretty much dead even, he did have about a hood on me though, regardless I was extremely happy!!! But then got to the light and noticed my oil pressure gauge was flickering like crazy, rolled down the window heard a ticking noise from the engine, augh sh#t that’s not good! Assumption, threw a rod bearing, parked car for the winter, school kept me busy.

Results:
Well after tearing the motor out of my car noticed a couple things, cracked downpipe, torn rear tranny/motor mount. The motor itself was in pretty good condition, pulled the oil pan, noticed what looked like aluminum shards, get the head off, and all other stuff. Pull the pistons and con rods, checked all the rod bearings, well just as suspected, except it was greater, threw 3 rod bearings!!! The crank was slightly damaged but nothing really big, took it to a local machine shop, balance/polish/grind/champher’d oil journals.

To do Next:
So once crank comes back, put back together with new parts, bigger and better parts. Oh yeah I also filled in the tranny/motor mounts with polyurethane caulk, seems to work pretty well can’t really tell until I put it back in, my cousin did it on his neon and said he noticed a difference, well considering it was only a $15 mod, it most likely worth it!

I’ve been pretty busy so I don’t post too much, so sorry bout this rather long post, I do regularly check the forum just don’t post unless necessary. If you have questions ask cause unfortunately there aren’t too many turbo'd alero’s out there so maybe this can spark some idea!

My N-Body Parts/Mod List!