Drift Ninjaz – BlogThis!

Well, it’s back to square one. I knew that when I picked up my L33, that it had been a little mishandled in the junkyard. The busted oilpan was a good indication of that. Turns out, there are also two cracks in the block. Since the block is cast aluminum, it “should” be easily repairable. However, after making a few calls to the local machine shops and only finding one that could handle welding aluminum, I paid them a little visit.

I wasn’t overly impressed and certainly didn’t get a confident feeling that the repair would be handled correctly. On top of that, the cracked mounting ear was pushed out of alignment, and would need additional work to try to get it back in alignment.  I just decided to throw in the towel on this engine. Fortunately, the junkyard is willing to take it back so my search for a new engine will begin as soon as I return this one.