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Thats exactly right, I was monitoring water temp and oil for a very short 2 to 3 mile run not even taking it pass 3000 rpms, breaking it in, listening paying attention, it was the first time on the street,unless you consider going around the shop in the parking lot. Here is my best guess, please consider this : The freeze plugs were either not in all the way or pushed out and got cocked from "improper coolant" or they may have fell out and they laid on the cross member, I did look under the car before I started it to look for leaks stains or anything that would cause me not to start it, no leaks or stains or freeze plugs, so truely I had no reason to believe the motor would have any issues what so ever. fired it up, great oil pressure 60 lbs the temp gauge took about 1 minute to start moving up. Now remember they are made to read fluid not block air temp. I put the car in gear and drove it keeping an eye on the gauges, never went about 200 (near the end) 2 / 3 miles later the oil pressure starting dropping because the clearances were getting tight, I saw oil pressure moving downward shut off the fuel pump turned off the key and the motor stayed running about 20 secs because of the heat in it. Called the builder, after pushing it home (with help),found (3) Freeze plugs under the car when we started to push it ,told him the story, he suggested letting it cool down and starting it to see if had oil pressure, I ran water thru it it just ran thru because of the missing freeze plugs, but it was hot so I just ran it thru anyway
Cool to the touch I fired it and it had 60 lbs of oil pressure, ran it 20 secs up to the trailor (about 25 feet) and shut it down, because now it is air cooled, winched it up took it to mike to put the freeze plugs back in it ?????? called friday come get your car we pulled the motor because of the visual heat damage, now that was unauthorized work. We never talked about yanking the motor, we spoke, he said he needed to look at it so he dissassembled the motor (again unauthorized) and Zap told me that it looked like the parts are good but saw alot of heat, it did melt the cam button and had oil stain all around, now no way of telling what happened because I need to take his word on it ?????
Thats the story.
Also I do not feel like anyone is critizing me, a great pratice is to pay attention and check things before firing , which I did . Maybe I was not clear about that. Also we have many different "levels of car guys" and people on this site, and the basics are always a great place to start, I understand. I read alot of opinions on here and I am fasinated by the general knowledge. I got no hurt feelings on the comments, keep them coming. They keep me thing and thats fine.
We will see how this all turns out, hopefully the right thing will happen.