OK, it's 1:48 AM. Just got home from having my friend tow me with his wrangler. Basically, in short what happened is I was being a dumbass and let my friends talk me into seeing how fast my car can actually go. I did a few runs with it on an abandoned road for fun in the middle of the night, and I then went to a parking lot, talked to my friend, and went home.
On the way home, about 2 min away from my house, I pulled up to the stop sign and I fully stopped. Not listening to any music, and with my window rolled down, I heard a strange sound coming from my engine. I imediatly kinda got this visual image of the piston going up and down and making that exact sound in the cylinder, so I glanced at my oil pressure gauge, and it was at what I remember estimating to be 14 psi. Panicking, I immediatly turned off my car and called a friend to be towed. Checked my oil level, and it looked to be fine.
I'm running 10W-30 Fully Synthetic Super-Tech (Wal-Mart) oil. Now I just talked to my father, and he made a very valid point. When there is no oil in the car, the first thing you hear is the ticking of the lifters right? I am VERY familiar with the ticking. I had an oil leak in my first Z and I got to listen to the ticking quite often, and the engine was not ticking, or at least if it was, I didn't hear it. Could I have just imagined the engine sound, looked at my oil pressure gauge and saw a reading that was incorrect because my oil pressure sending unit needs to be replaced (my car normally idles around 20 psi), or have I been wrong all along, the oil pressure sending unit is just fine, and The oil pressure has slowly been deteriorating and now it finally hit me.
Also, While parked in the parking lot, I popped my hood to smell for any funny smells and get some air in there, and I heard a funny sound near the top right of the engine over the turbo around the plenum. It sounded like some sort of liquid moving or something. Didn't pay too much attention to it.
So basically, could what I think happened, possibly have happened? If so, what went wrong, and can I fix it (I wasn't playing any music or anything so I think I got to the problem as soon as the sound became audible)? Would the lifters have started to tick first? Or did I jump the gun a little fast, assume to much, and just need to replace my oil pressure sending unit. Because honestly, while I thought that was metal on metal, thinking back it could have been some sort of coolant flowing or something. I don't know. I'm looking for ANY input, and ANY help. Thanks!
On the way home, about 2 min away from my house, I pulled up to the stop sign and I fully stopped. Not listening to any music, and with my window rolled down, I heard a strange sound coming from my engine. I imediatly kinda got this visual image of the piston going up and down and making that exact sound in the cylinder, so I glanced at my oil pressure gauge, and it was at what I remember estimating to be 14 psi. Panicking, I immediatly turned off my car and called a friend to be towed. Checked my oil level, and it looked to be fine.
I'm running 10W-30 Fully Synthetic Super-Tech (Wal-Mart) oil. Now I just talked to my father, and he made a very valid point. When there is no oil in the car, the first thing you hear is the ticking of the lifters right? I am VERY familiar with the ticking. I had an oil leak in my first Z and I got to listen to the ticking quite often, and the engine was not ticking, or at least if it was, I didn't hear it. Could I have just imagined the engine sound, looked at my oil pressure gauge and saw a reading that was incorrect because my oil pressure sending unit needs to be replaced (my car normally idles around 20 psi), or have I been wrong all along, the oil pressure sending unit is just fine, and The oil pressure has slowly been deteriorating and now it finally hit me.
Also, While parked in the parking lot, I popped my hood to smell for any funny smells and get some air in there, and I heard a funny sound near the top right of the engine over the turbo around the plenum. It sounded like some sort of liquid moving or something. Didn't pay too much attention to it.
So basically, could what I think happened, possibly have happened? If so, what went wrong, and can I fix it (I wasn't playing any music or anything so I think I got to the problem as soon as the sound became audible)? Would the lifters have started to tick first? Or did I jump the gun a little fast, assume to much, and just need to replace my oil pressure sending unit. Because honestly, while I thought that was metal on metal, thinking back it could have been some sort of coolant flowing or something. I don't know. I'm looking for ANY input, and ANY help. Thanks!
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