Just done 700 miles on a rebuilt engine

200 block 2wd head.


noticed the oil pressure gauge was reading 20 on idle,,, thought a little low. restart engine and it went up to 30, drove the car and seemed fine boosted a little and the turbo bearings made a noise,, then the oil pressure dropped to 15 on idle....

I was like nooooooo ..... cut engine out and after a couple of mins Restarted engine and oil pressure was about 25.


poodled home and the next day i thought id take the sump off to see if anything wrong.


sump had lots of copper filings in it,,,, I decided to take off the caps ,,, and number 3 for some reason had overheated and there was nothing left of the bearing..... The engine didnt knock though,,
just suddenly dropped on oil pressure..

It was running perfect I'm so pissed off,,,,, so it means i gotta strip down the whole engine and clean out all the debris and find another crank

Walllllet !!!!!!!!! COSTWORTH!