Okay, yeah I should be shot, but hey . . .it's still running!! The car was a mistreated '86 Turbo.
Of course it was #2. The journal wasn't damaged really bad and it mic'ed within specks and the big end was still good. . . . .I observed the oil flow chart and when I determined that any filings would have dropped into the pan and would have been caught by the filter before going anywhere else, I simply cleaned the journal, put new bearings on all the rods, buttoned it up and sent him running.
It's really a long story, he obtained the car via an unpaid loan he had made to a 'friend'. He wasn't sure if he was keeping the car and I felt, for the money he wanted to spend at the time, that it was worth a shot. I started it, ran it with a sludge cleaner for about 10 mins. Drained that oil and put in Mobil1, another filter and off he went.
It seems to be doing fine. He's put about 3.5k on it since. No rod knocks etc. I told him that I could with reasonable certainty give him 5k. But knowing these cranks and rods I wouldn't be surprised if it went another 50 to 75k.
I've spun #2 in a NA before ('86) and although I did a complete rebuild and used another crank, the journal on the old one would probably only need to be polished out a little. I've actually ran 911 cranks in track engines with journals that looked worse. The big end on the rod was a little out of round though so I replaced all the rods with the earlier model Sintered rods.
I dunno WHAT the idiot that he obtained it from had done to the poor car. He told my friend that he was "a top rated p-car mechanic" and that he had installed all these bulls(*& upgrades like CF hood, fenders, upgrade suspension components, etc. I hated to have to burst my friends bubble after looking the car over. Basically bone stock except for what appears to be one non-metal fender on the drivers side. . . I don't think it's CF though.
Oh, we also had to replace his headers, #2&3 had totally separated at the merge. Turbo wasn't spooling up at all!!!
C'est le Vie!! I really want to see how far it'll go
