Back in 2010 I live in Fort Lauderdale and worked in West Palm Beach, so i travel 50mi each way to work, so i drove my 323hb dubbed "The ****box" back and forth to work so save on fuel.
Still sporting my b6 and 5spd. The car was excellent. I had always planned on doing a bp swap just never had the money. I drove this car everywhere.ni had owned it for 7yrs at this point. I bought it, with a lowly 82k. One day going home from work almost home I hear a rattle. Sound like exhaust hitting the body. I tell myself ill check it out at work tomorow on a rack. Next morning i head to work, i make it 10mi from home when my rattle gets louder. Let off the throttle noise goes away. Get in the throttle noise returns "hmm". Well i gotta get to work hopefully its nothing major. I cruze on for another minute and the car starts to miss. All of a sudden temp gauge rockets to full hot, shakes violently. All lights come on and shuts off. Now on the middle of I95 i coast to the shoulder. On the shoulder I try and restart I get nothing. Call AAA and record my mileage as exactly 200,000. Have the car towed to work were I suspect I broke a rod, or a piston. I tear into the engine removing cylinder head first and find nothing wrong. I proceed to remove the engine and rip it apart. Here is what I find.
Well now is no better time then bp swap. Went to the junkyard and pull me a bp. The swap went pretty easy no issues. I reused my f-series trans and original 200k clutch. Everything went pretty good for the next few years. Took the car to the track a few times, got to race against a MP4 12C, ZL1 camaro, Nissan GTR. Needless to say i lost all those races but it was fun. (I have videos if anyone is interested).Many long trips to Nashville to visit family and a normal life. Forward to summer of 2013. I take a grueling 4000mi round trip from WPB to Nashville to canada and back. On my trip back from nashville 10mi from florida in georgia, my car starts to misfire. I pull off and find the nearest auto parts store. Do alil diagnosing and figure maybe a bad plug. Swap the plugs for a fresh set, no change. I have 1 dead cylinder. What to do, im 500mi from home. I do what any sensible man would do I drive on. I get home with no further issues except for 1 dead cylinder and poor mpgs lol. I continue driving my car like so for 3 months due to not having time or another vehicle to drive. I start to collect another bp and rebuild it to have a quick swap to reduce down time. Proceed to swap out my busted bp for a fresh bp and tear down my old one.
While I had the engine out I replaced the core support due to a bent lower support from when I bought the car.
Fresh out of the shop, on a lunch date with my wife we go to Jupiter and go have lunch. As we leave the restaurant a lady on the phone pull out in front of me and I t-bone her. With less then 30mi on my rebuilt front end and engine I total the car. Bent both front rails, pass rail touching the power steering pump pulley.
Well saddened by my loss, I have the car straightened, and I sell it to my brother, it just wont do for me. I score a deal local to me and pickup another 323hb that I am almost done kl swapping.
The name lives on. Thats the end of my stories
Still sporting my b6 and 5spd. The car was excellent. I had always planned on doing a bp swap just never had the money. I drove this car everywhere.ni had owned it for 7yrs at this point. I bought it, with a lowly 82k. One day going home from work almost home I hear a rattle. Sound like exhaust hitting the body. I tell myself ill check it out at work tomorow on a rack. Next morning i head to work, i make it 10mi from home when my rattle gets louder. Let off the throttle noise goes away. Get in the throttle noise returns "hmm". Well i gotta get to work hopefully its nothing major. I cruze on for another minute and the car starts to miss. All of a sudden temp gauge rockets to full hot, shakes violently. All lights come on and shuts off. Now on the middle of I95 i coast to the shoulder. On the shoulder I try and restart I get nothing. Call AAA and record my mileage as exactly 200,000. Have the car towed to work were I suspect I broke a rod, or a piston. I tear into the engine removing cylinder head first and find nothing wrong. I proceed to remove the engine and rip it apart. Here is what I find.
Well now is no better time then bp swap. Went to the junkyard and pull me a bp. The swap went pretty easy no issues. I reused my f-series trans and original 200k clutch. Everything went pretty good for the next few years. Took the car to the track a few times, got to race against a MP4 12C, ZL1 camaro, Nissan GTR. Needless to say i lost all those races but it was fun. (I have videos if anyone is interested).Many long trips to Nashville to visit family and a normal life. Forward to summer of 2013. I take a grueling 4000mi round trip from WPB to Nashville to canada and back. On my trip back from nashville 10mi from florida in georgia, my car starts to misfire. I pull off and find the nearest auto parts store. Do alil diagnosing and figure maybe a bad plug. Swap the plugs for a fresh set, no change. I have 1 dead cylinder. What to do, im 500mi from home. I do what any sensible man would do I drive on. I get home with no further issues except for 1 dead cylinder and poor mpgs lol. I continue driving my car like so for 3 months due to not having time or another vehicle to drive. I start to collect another bp and rebuild it to have a quick swap to reduce down time. Proceed to swap out my busted bp for a fresh bp and tear down my old one.
While I had the engine out I replaced the core support due to a bent lower support from when I bought the car.
Fresh out of the shop, on a lunch date with my wife we go to Jupiter and go have lunch. As we leave the restaurant a lady on the phone pull out in front of me and I t-bone her. With less then 30mi on my rebuilt front end and engine I total the car. Bent both front rails, pass rail touching the power steering pump pulley.
Well saddened by my loss, I have the car straightened, and I sell it to my brother, it just wont do for me. I score a deal local to me and pickup another 323hb that I am almost done kl swapping.
The name lives on. Thats the end of my stories
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