R.i.p Ls6
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R.i.p Ls6
Went down to Cecil County last night with some buddies from work to mess around, I threw on my slicks and had 11s in mind.
First pass would be my motors last pass, did my burnout and staged, brought it up to about 5500 and slipped it. As soon as I came out of the hole I knew I had an 11.
At around 5500 in 3rd I started to hear a chatter and felt the car losing power, I stayed in it anyway I knew what was happening and nothing I could do was gonna remedy it. It held out until redline and suddered and shut off as I coasted across the line I could hear metal grinding and bouncing around in the motor.
I checked my rearview to see if I was trailing oil in case I had to stop as not to spread it all the way down the track, I saw none, nor smoke.
Final run ended up being 12.0 @ 113 coasting across the line
Ended up getting towed home and I am just in the middle of pulling everything apart. Theres a nice hole behind my starter and im sure ill find nice metal chunks in the pan when I finally get it out. The motor actually still runs and I still had a full oil pan, I love my car.
I actually have an LS7 thats going in so ill have it back on its feet in a couple weeks.
Some pics
First pass would be my motors last pass, did my burnout and staged, brought it up to about 5500 and slipped it. As soon as I came out of the hole I knew I had an 11.
At around 5500 in 3rd I started to hear a chatter and felt the car losing power, I stayed in it anyway I knew what was happening and nothing I could do was gonna remedy it. It held out until redline and suddered and shut off as I coasted across the line I could hear metal grinding and bouncing around in the motor.
I checked my rearview to see if I was trailing oil in case I had to stop as not to spread it all the way down the track, I saw none, nor smoke.
Final run ended up being 12.0 @ 113 coasting across the line
Ended up getting towed home and I am just in the middle of pulling everything apart. Theres a nice hole behind my starter and im sure ill find nice metal chunks in the pan when I finally get it out. The motor actually still runs and I still had a full oil pan, I love my car.
I actually have an LS7 thats going in so ill have it back on its feet in a couple weeks.
Some pics
Last edited by BaneZ06; Sep 30, 2006 at 07:16 PM.
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Im actually shocked it let go, it showed no signs at all of having any issues. Ive only had the car for 6000 miles and did no abnormal abusive actions to it to cause premature failure. So your guess is as good as mine. A 45yr old guy owned it before me, It had the original tires on it when I got it.
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Sorry about the LS6, but the LS7 will be a good replacement. 