Ark's City Goblin (2007 2.0L LSJ donor) - Aborted mission

[Ark :D]

After looking at the cams last night and thinking on it for a bit, this project as it is right this moment, is dead in the water. I can't justify sinking the money into rebuilding the engine; I don't know what I'm doing and I never bargained for such a project. SO I've listed the engine for sale as-is on the FB marketplace; we'll see if I get any bites.

Additionally, the Ecotec 2.0L engine I was looking at seems to be out of reach, as the owner has broke off communication.

I've already got a new donor in sight, and this one runs! My wife will be quite upset at me for bringing another car home to strip, but what can I say. It's either that or bail on the project in full, which I do not want to do. Suffice it to say, going forward, I need to minimize my mistakes or I won't have a choice but to pull the plug.

Going to PM Lonny/Adam to lock/delete this in the near future. I'll start a proper build thread without so many useless posts from me, once I have another donor. I really, really appreciate all the support I've gotten on this forum already, you guys are literally the best. Thank you all!

Jeremy

 

[Dylan Stan]

Hey where are you located.

 

[Ark :D]

Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

 

[Dylan Stan]

Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Im in Detroit and know these engines pretty well. I dont know if i can be off assistance but im willing to help. Easy way to identify that engine is toast or not. I started my build with same timing chain guide broken and off time.

 

[Ark :D]

Thank you for the offer. At this point, I know it needs a head, rockers, and at least one cam and I haven't even gotten the head off yet to survey the damage. People on FB marketplace are beating down the door to get this engine, so I think I'm just gonna take the loss and move on. Seems like I could get more for it if I split up the motor/trans/supercharger, but I need it to move fast if I'm looking at another donor (and oh boy, am I).

 

[Ross]

Glad to hear you are moving forward, even thou you had a rough start. A glimmer of good came of all this, as it motivated me to replace my timing chain tensioner, which is one of the early designs that is know to fail. I want to avoid the fate of your old engine.

 

[Ark :D]

Good! Everyone should do so if they haven't already. I believe that's exactly what happened. When I pulled the old tensioner out, there was no pressure on the plunger at all, gave the timing chain plenty of slack to hop around. No bueno.

 

[Ark :D]

Motor sold, picked up, gone. Chapter one closed.

May chapter two go a little better for me.