This is sort of the second installment of my DSM repair bit, I thought I'd fill you guys in a bit more.  As I mentioned before, when my girlfriend(Sai12 on here)'s brother owned the Eagle Talon the used turbocharger we put it blew pretty spectacularily.  When I pulled it out it was so bad, shaftplay doesn't even cut it, it was far beyond what shaftplay would define.  The impeller wiggled around so much that the fins had been smacking into the compressor housing and had shattered into little tiny bits that I can only assume got sucked into the engine.  When I had the turbocharger out I took it apart and noticed that instead of two bearing in the bearing housing there was only one.  Most of the bearing was in the form of copper powder floating around in the oil. We showed up on a Saturday and pulled the turbo out, on Sunday I had it running again after a full turbo swap, radiator flush, oil change, and ghetto repair job of a stripped out oil return fitting using a whole tube of QuckSteel to seal around a leaky oil line.  Very obviously only meant to be a temporary fix but I didn't have time to pull out the oil pan and rethread the holes, so I opted to spend the extra $150 to later replace the oil pan and oil line that were now cemented together, packed up, and headed out for I had to work the next day.

With that said, I have a sneaky suspicion that a solid chunk of the bearing was either lodged in the oil line and got pushed out, or it was hanging out in the sump and is now free because I hear what sounds like rattling coming from down below in the oil pan/crank area.  It rattles at idle and roars under power, triggering the knock sensor, flashing the oil light, and shaking the whole car.  That sounds like far more than a little piece of bearing could be doing so I'm going out on a limb by assuming that some other factors are coming into play, eating up my engine.  That is why I opted for an engine swap.  I'm hunting for a full turn-key drivetrain with engine, five-speed all wheel drive transmission (the car is AWD and I'm keeping it that way) with all of the accessories and sensors.  All of the problems this car has are under the hood: Idle Speed Controller, Worn out Power Steering Pump, Old Alternator, Bottom End Knock, Ghetto Oil leak repair, so getting a full system would insure that I get a lower mileage engine, a lower milage transmission (the current one has 157000 miles), a newer oil pan that hopefully isn't stripped out, hopefully newer accessories and a functioning Idle Speed Controller, and if I went JDM a more powerful engine than anything offered in the US.   Once that's swapped in I'll just rebuild the six-bolt that's in there and sell it.

I'm looking to keep it around $1500, not the nicest or lowest of miles at that price, but hopefully a nice platform to work from.  The candidates are picked out, just waiting for the money to come around, I'll keep you posted.

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