Mis-shifted

[ludina2001]

i have a 2001 prelude that has headers(put in 2 weeks before problem), pulleys, intake, exhaust.....now the problem is my friend was driving my ride cause i was drunk...and he was trying to race some dude...so i told him to drop it into 4th and he dropped it into 2nd...so i freak....then like 5 minutes later he does it again...and the car just stalls out....we couldnt even get it started again...so now im really losing it...we finally get it started like an hour later and the car shaking like crazy and my check engine light is on....the cars been at the mechanics for a week and they cant seem to find the problem....could anyone help..PLEASE
the car only has like 30,000 miles....what a waste...please help..PLEASE
thanks

[tsugsr]

not tryin to flame or piss ya off, but thats why you dont let your friends drive your car, no one ever drives my car nor will they ever, its better to crash were you drank. but it sounds like you have a blown motor.

[T!mmy]

ohh not the thing he wanted to hear but yea I would think the same.

[pheurton-skeurto]

Originally Posted by ludina2001

i have a 2001 prelude that has headers(put in 2 weeks before problem), pulleys, intake, exhaust.....now the problem is my friend was driving my ride cause i was drunk...and he was trying to race some dude...so i told him to drop it into 4th and he dropped it into 2nd...so i freak....then like 5 minutes later he does it again...and the car just stalls out....we couldnt even get it started again...so now im really losing it...we finally get it started like an hour later and the car shaking like crazy and my check engine light is on....the cars been at the mechanics for a week and they cant seem to find the problem....could anyone help..PLEASE
the car only has like 30,000 miles....what a waste...please help..PLEASE
thanks

friends dont let friends race in their car when they are drunk...

[tibby01]

you see, what happened was your friend was prolly hitting around 4k in the rpm range when he down shifted to 2nd from fifth.

so you were going about 80 when he went into second. now just think about when your in second gear driving. how hard would it be for the engine to get to 80 in second gear? you would prolly have to hit 12k rpms. well thats what you forced the engine into doing.

a number of things could have happened. whatever it is, they will find out once they take the engine head off. your lucky you even got it started again, cause i bet your pistons look like golf balls.

sorry to say, you learn from your mistakes...you just have to hope they arent expensive. in your case, they are.

[IntegraB18LS]

My buddy did the same thing in his eclipse last year. except he was already had 4000/4500rpm in 5th and wow you should of seen the internals of his motor. timming belt slipped and valves went through the pistons, valves broke off and put holes all through his cylinder head and his block was done unless he was to resleeve it. his didnt start back up lol. He had a autometer 10,000rpm tach and he said he seen it go right past that and kept going. oh well yours isnt this servear but it does sound like you may need to do a rebuild

good luck
Kyle

[Ispankyourmom]

No one drives any car of mine - except me, and all my friends don't even bother to ask - they already know what the answer is.

[Ispankyourmom]

Actually I take that back - I teach hot chicks how to drive stick in my car out in the country (not a sexual joke - sometimes I get layed - other times I don't). Some female friends of mine asked me if I could take them out to teach them how to drive a 5 speed - and I can't say no to a pretty face.

[lude_si]

Ispankyourmom I know exacly what you mean Ive taught about 3 or 4 hot chicks how to drive a stick in my car

[tibby01]

ya know, there is an edit button at the bottom right of your post. that was kinda fitting though!!! lol

[Sulsa]

Your car's been at the mechanic's for a WEEK, and they can't figure out what's wrong with it?! Time to take it to a different mechanic. I wouldn't even pay em if they didn't tell you something you didn't know before.

You could have a blown headgasket, burned a piston or valve.

A piston could have hit a valve, as valves will float at higher RPM's than the V-springs are rated for.

You may have spun a rod bearing, and that may not be immediately apparent to a mechanic.

Maybe your timing belt stretched and jumped a tooth.

You might even check your ignition timing to see if your distributor somehow came loose and threw your timing out of whack.

As for drunk driving, I'd rather have my friend blow up my motor than hit and kill someone's family. People that think they can drive fine while they're drunk are fuckin retarded, and ought to be shot.

On the other hand, I sure as hell wouldn't let him RACE my car. Racing is hard enough on the engine. Someone racing a car they're not familiar with, is just a hazard.

[pheurton-skeurto]

im assuming this though...

if youre fortunate enough to come by a 2001 lude, which im SURE set you back more than $14,000...
youre probably going to find the means to come by another 2-3K for a rebuild (maybe more, maybe less, im not all that sure). Plus...try to get your friend to hook you up with a bit of money, a few hundred even, anything helps...either way good luck.

[Miataracer]

I'd tell the guy you can either pay me the money or pay money to the hospital when you need to have your nose reconstructed... its that simple.

but I am glad at least some people feel drunk driving is WRONG

[tsugsr]

If any of yall thought i was implying driving drunk i wasnt, i meant crashing, as in sleeping at the place he drank. Drunk driving is wrong and retarded. if no one intended to say that, i appologize

[XixGenuinexiX]

exactly why are you even worried about it. If he was your friend at all, he would be a man and take the bill for fucking up your engine.