Well coming home from the track the other day I spun a rod bearing in the talon. Drove it about ~2 miles with the expression “wtf is that noise” pulled over and had it towed. Pulled the head expecting to see a floated valve smashed since I was revving above “factory specs.” But in turn found nothing really…pulled the pan to find the #2 rod bearing that melted down. The car turned over by hand so easy with no apparent slop in the rod bearing so it was kinda weird. Of course I’m going to check the tolerences and stuff but this is my backyard cheap fix question that I know is wrong…
If everything checks out half decent, do you think I can just pop a bearing in and run it through winter. (Id flush the motor out the best I could…) If I did this I would return it to stock otherwise and run factory boost and all.
The reasoning is I have a mint spare shortblock, but I was saving to drop my money into this summer. I KNOW just throwing a bearing in is not the right solution but I want to know if any of you had any luck doing this in a pinch. The current block is kinda beat and I do not want to build it…
So let me hear your thoughts!
