Yeah, like I said, this is a car that was literally already at the scrap heap when we found her (high rear end collision). She ain't ever gonna be pretty and her life as a commuter is done. So, we're going to do what we can to get what useful life is left in her.
A transmission rebuild would be nice, but in reality, I'm not even sure if that's the main part of our problem. Like I said, we never got high into the RPMs, never really 'bounced' the rev limiter, though it did make a similar sound. Even when it made that noise, the needle didn't bounce around and it certainly didn't reach any higher than 5k (maybe even like 4500?). So I don't know if that's a separate problem or, more likely, it's an end-user issue (i.e. we don't know what we're doing).
NOS is possible (theoretically), but I'm not sure we'd want to use that until late Sunday. Homemade turbos were also kicked around, but it's remedial math students doing trigonometry at that point (like pulling and rebuilding a transmission is any easier).
In the end though, it's nobody's daily driver and nothing is scheduled for her, so we can take apart, rebuild, take out, etc., whatever we want.
I'd still love to get opinions from everyone on 6gen about what's wrong, what happened and what's next. Work is nowhere near as fun as this is.
A transmission rebuild would be nice, but in reality, I'm not even sure if that's the main part of our problem. Like I said, we never got high into the RPMs, never really 'bounced' the rev limiter, though it did make a similar sound. Even when it made that noise, the needle didn't bounce around and it certainly didn't reach any higher than 5k (maybe even like 4500?). So I don't know if that's a separate problem or, more likely, it's an end-user issue (i.e. we don't know what we're doing).
NOS is possible (theoretically), but I'm not sure we'd want to use that until late Sunday. Homemade turbos were also kicked around, but it's remedial math students doing trigonometry at that point (like pulling and rebuilding a transmission is any easier).
In the end though, it's nobody's daily driver and nothing is scheduled for her, so we can take apart, rebuild, take out, etc., whatever we want.
I'd still love to get opinions from everyone on 6gen about what's wrong, what happened and what's next. Work is nowhere near as fun as this is.