If you have read my section on "When Nitrous Broke My Engine" you know why I am forced into even trying to run on 3 cylinders or I guess I should say 3 pistons. Basically my #2 piston blow into thousands of little pieces and my rod banged the crap out of that clyinder wall. I don't think I could of put another piston in there. There was lots of big groves and big craters in the bottom of the clyinder wall. If I could of got a piston to go into the clyinder the rings would have caught a crater or the blow by probably would fry a bunch of oil and caused more damage. So I thought what the hell I might as well try to get it to run some how.
I took the oil pan off and took out all the pieces of piston and rod that was everywhere. That is when I thought I was thru. I didn't think it would last very long with all that crap everywhere. So I got some spray lube and cleaned everything around the crank and all that crap. I took the rod cap off and took it to my grandpa's house and cut the little bit of rod that was left so there was just a rod cap with no rod. I put the rod cap back on and gave the motor a turn and like I thought it came in contact with the block. So I turned the bottom half of the cap around backwards with the rod bearings in it. This made it so that the cap couldn't turn on the crank. I gave the motor a turn and it didn't hit anything. So that problem was solved. I then put the oil pan and everything else back on. I changed the oil and filter. Now I had the problem that oil was going to be thrown up into the intake and exhaust thru the head because there was no piston to stop it. So I took the intake and exhaust manifolds off. I took the tops from a soup can and flated them out real flat and put on infront of the #2 intake port and exhaust port. Now the oil would stay in the head and not go anywhere else. You are probably wondering why I even put a rod cap on and why I didn't disable those valves to that clyinder. I didn't becuase I was worried about oil pressure. With the cap on the crank I keep oil pressure and it isn't as baddly out of balance. I didn't disable the valves for the same reason. I then unpluged the fuel injector to that cylinder and took the spark wire off the spark plug and stuck a tree twig into the wire and put a bunch of electrical tape around it. I guess that is pretty much it.
I have ran it on 3 pistons for about 4,000 miles now and it is running as good and smooth as the day I fixed it. I odviusly don't run it very hard at all. But I tried it once to see how much difference in performance there was. I have a spot around my house where I could get exactly 60mph from 0mph. I tried it with only 3 cylinders and still got 55mph at the same place so it is not much slower but I don't run it that hard very often(actually I don't run it hard at all.) But it takes me from point A to point B and I do it in style, in my kick ass 3 cylinder neon. I will be at NEON99 if anyone doesn't believe me. I was at Neon99 but didn't tell anyone that my car was a 3 cylinder because I didn't what to look like a loser, idiot, but now I couldn't care less it has more than proven itself. And it is of more use to me as 1.5 litre than a 2.0 litre that won't run.
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