Guess What?

[SergntMac]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...

[duhtroll]

A grumpy kilt-wearing cop?

:D

-A

[MM03MOK]

A mouse?? :D

[Patrick]

Nope not going thier!!!! :lol: :lol:

[Haggis]

A dozen peanuts when they dropped your gas tank? :help:

Oops that was me, long story I forgot tell you over the phone.

[stevengerard]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...

Your engine!

[SergntMac]

Keep thinking...This is really going to surprize many of you spec heads...

BTW, this is a legit contest, with a Zack modded grill as the Grand Prize!

[Slowpoke]

i think i know what it was and PM'ed mac privately.... i dont want to spoil the surprise if i am right. and the 'modded grill' from Zack might be the George Foreman Grill he got from me.

[martyo]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...


Given what Randy does for a living, I am guessing that he pulled your heads.

Now, what happens if more than one of us is right?

[SergntMac]

No one will "tie" this.

[MarauderMark]

No one will "tie" this.


A dead horse. So now that'll put you @ , ummm 301hp .:rofl:

[ncmm]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...
a beer can out of the passenger door. . .

[SergntMac]

I've gotten five guess by e-mail, y'all are wrong too. Not a bad pistion, no panties, not my head out of my azz, no one else out of my...Nevermind, and surely...Not a dead MM.Net member from another state from my trunk. C'mon, this is a legit contest...Think!

[MARAUDER S/C #5]

Your Supercharger ???????

[FiveO]

"Tie" rods? :D

[martyo]

Did he "pull" some timing out of your tune to accomodate the winter blend of gas that has hit the pumps?

[MarauderMark]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...


Another MM? what did he do with what he pulled out?

[CRUZTAKER]

A grumpy kilt-wearing cop?

:D

-A
AHHH! My meds aren't strong enough for humor like this....you are killing me...literally. The pain....oh the pain...

My guess is a cap from an oil bottle...
Jessica guesses a dead cat....

A dead cat? WTF!

[Slowpoke]

some kinda dead animal that crawled up into the engine... maybe a squirrel?

[Bluerauder]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...
I guess that it was a "built sheet" from the St. Thomas Assembly plant listing your official build number and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Elena Ford with a copy of the new "Opening New Doors" CD. :rofl:

[merc406]

A block from under the go pedal? :burnout:

[RCSignals]

I also guess it was the Build sheet for your car.

[Petrograde]

4 camshafts

[TechHeavy]

A dead cat? That happened to me once...

[ncmm]

Guess what Randy Crowley at PER pulled out of my MM yesterday...I know, I know, I know. . .:banana:

10 extra horsepower! :burnout:

[valleyman]

A live marmot? Me and some buddies pulled one out one time. Technically, it wasn't IN the engine, just sitting on the bell housing for about 30 minutes. When we finally convinced it to depart and it scurried into woods, we all knew that that marmot was going to have the best pick-up line that night at the marmot bars ("So, baby, wanna know how I got this greasy burn scar on my tail ....")

[hdwrench]

crankshaft? pistons?

[BillyGman]

I have no idea, but c'mon MAC, the suspense is killing me!!!!

[looking97233]

Some sort of tool left there from the assembly plant?

[RoyLPita]

A rubber band from one of the many wiring harnesses under the hood.

[hdwrench]

pulley :confused:

[Bradley G]

Was it Bigger than a breadbox??

Bradley G

[Bigdogjim]

Wrong size/type piston?, rods?, heads?, valves?, etc,etc...........

[mpearce]

Your drivers seat

[MM03MOK]

Engine?? :dunno: Cast crank?

[hdwrench]

pulled some crazy #'s on the dyno

[the_pack_rat]

Perhaps you have made some tweaks ...

Best dyno numbers to date ?.

:dunno:

Eric

[Marauderman]

Well, with little knowledge of who this guy is or what those Letters mean where he works--which only helps those close to you and your area--it could be anything from everyone else's end--so in some way you have given some help to those..but anyway, I'll guess--

A bolt in your tranny pan when changing /flushing ....Tom

[FiveO]

The exhaust....you're old one.

Getting ready for the Kook's I'm guessing :)

[Petrograde]

c'mon Sarge! spill the beans! :P

[bigslim]

What do we win if we guess???

[Tallboy]

the transmission? heads usually get "yanked", don't they?c'mon, mac, what was it?

[SergntMac]

TIME! Put down your pencils, clost your test booklet and stay in your seats until a proctor retrieves your test material.

A grumpy kilt-wearing cop?-A
Grumpy, eh? LOL...You're a jerk, go clean your engine bay.

Your engine!
First close guess, but still specifically vague. Oh wait, there's more...

4 camshafts
Technically yes, but I'm looking for more specifics.

crankshaft? pistons?
OOH...OOH...Getting very very warm...

Engine? Cast crank?
Sorry, Mary, you had a hint from my E-mail, so did Slowpoke.

Wrong size/type piston?, rods?, heads?, valves?, etc,etc...
BINGO! We have a winner! Jim, you may have had a hint as well, but the use of "wrong" cut the finish line tape.

The correct answer is "eight bolt crank," and according to some of our resident spec heads here, this is impossible. So, I have the wrong crank. BTW, I also have the wrong block, it has six bolt mains...Oh well, guess I have my work cut out for me locating the correct Marauder parts.

I suppose this isn't much of a big deal after all, but I just wanted to have some fun over the weekend. Everything else here seems so full of drama lately, and there some ROTFLMAO posts. Thanks for participating.

BDJ, your Zack grill is in production and I'll ship it out to you when done.

[Haggis]

TIME! Put down your pencils, clost your test booklet and stay in your seats until a proctor retrieves your test material.

Grumpy, eh? LOL...You're a jerk, go clean your engine bay.

First close guess, but still specifically vague. Oh wait, there's more...

Technically yes, but I'm looking for more specifics.

OOH...OOH...Getting very very warm...

Sorry, Mary, you had a hint from my E-mail, so did Slowpoke.

BINGO! We have a winner! Jim, you may have had a hint as well, but the use of "wrong" cut the finish line tape.

The correct answer is "eight bolt crank," and according to some of our resident spec heads here, this is impossible. So, I have the wrong crank. BTW, I also have the wrong block, it has six bolt mains...Oh well, guess I have my work cut out for me locating the correct Marauder parts.

I suppose this isn't much of a big deal after all, but I just wanted to have some fun over the weekend. Everything else here seems so full of drama lately, and there some ROTFLMAO posts. Thanks for participating.

BDJ, your Zack grill is in production and I'll ship it out to you when done.


WHAT, no peanuts???

I least I bring snack food to my wrenches.

[RoyLPita]

Don't forget to change your flexplate too. BTW, Did Kenny Brown do any internal mods to handle the HP increase? If yes, that could have been one of them.

[Ken]

BDJ, your Zack grill is in production and I'll ship it out to you when done.Although, if Zack is still making his grills, I may have to contact him.

Ken

[SergntMac]

Don't forget to change your flexplate too. BTW, Did Kenny Brown do any internal mods to handle the HP increase? If yes, that could have been one of them.
No need to change flex plate, or anything else for that matter. My MM has the original bone stock OEM engine, code 3G-120-AA, June 2002 build on the car and engine dob says 03-02...?

[MM03MOK]

Sorry, Mary, you had a hint from my E-mail, so did Slowpoke.What email? ;)

[rumble]

No need to change flex plate, or anything else for that matter. My MM has the original bone stock OEM engine, code 3G-120-AA, June 2002 build on the car and engine dob says 03-02...?

Sarg that is very interesting, can you tell if that 8 bolt crank
happens to be cast or is it perhaps forged? Also does your
engine have the stock cast connecting rods or are they also different?

[stevengerard]

Don't you have to pull the engine to get to the crank? Oh well I got an honorable mention anyway.

[SergntMac]

Sarg that is very interesting, can you tell if that 8 bolt crank
happens to be cast or is it perhaps forged? Also does your
engine have the stock cast connecting rods or are they also different?
Crank and rods appear to be stock nodular cast iron. Everything looks pretty good too, except some unusual burn patterns in the top of #8. While the rest of the piston tops are smooth, #8 has a rough "crusty" center that spreads out towards the edge, but stops about a 1/3 of an inch in from the edge, kinda like covering a quarter with a nickle. Also, the #8 piston is discolored, skirts are darker than the rest. This must be the effect of the cylinder head coolant circulation problem.

[rumble]

Crank and rods appear to be stock nodular cast iron.

As I said my friend, very interesting, We can always count on you
to be on the cutting edge and the provider of new information.

Thanks for sharing.

Do you have any theories as to what might have caused this?

[BillyGman]

MAC, I hope you don't mind my inquiry, but perhaps I've missed some current events concerning your car......I'm curious as to what made you yank the engine out of the car in the first place? Are you in the middle of a "Project"?

[duhtroll]

Clean my engine bay?

Never!

Well, if you mean leave the hood up/use the sprayer at the car wash then I'm way ahead of ya'. :rock:

Righteous.

-A

[SergntMac]

Birthday present...Patches turns 2 November 20th. Going to sing happy birthday while I light up the tires.

No big deal really, just throwing some of that steel forged crap together. Engine will stay relatively stock, trying to do things on a budget. I'm kinda interested in the wear and tear 411 after two years and 20K+ miles with me behind the wheel, so, I'll be watching the specs/tolerances on the stuff coming out. But, I'm not finding much to comment on so far, other than what I have.

[Warpath]

Rods should be powdered metal and not cast unless they changed it for MMs. You should see that the line/cut separating the two pieces at the end (caps? - I'm drawing a blank) are not straight. The rods are machined and the caps are broken off leaving an uneven surface. The attached picture is the only one I have at work. But, it shows the surface is not machined.

[SergntMac]

Rods should be powdered metal and not cast unless they changed it for MMs. You should see that the line/cut separating the two pieces at the end (caps? - I'm drawing a blank) are not straight. The rods are machined and the caps are broken off leaving an uneven surface. The attached picture is the only one I have at work. But, it shows the surface is not machined.
You mean "cracked" which always made me laugh a bit.

[Bradley G]

Hey Mac, I too have a "Patches", Who turns two in December! He's a great dog !!Huskey Mix. I'll try and post a pic!

Bradley G


Birthday present...Patches turns 2 November 20th. Going to sing happy birthday while I light up the tires.

No big deal really, just throwing some of that steel forged crap together. Engine will stay relatively stock, trying to do things on a budget. I'm kinda interested in the wear and tear 411 after two years and 20K+ miles with me behind the wheel, so, I'll be watching the specs/tolerances on the stuff coming out. But, I'm not finding much to comment on so far, other than what I have.