well, a combo of lame with good timing happened today on the way home from work.
my commute is onoly about 15mins and the camaro has never been any trouble at all(other than the lack of a functioning choke on cold mornings, but that is the result of my laziness)
so i pulled out onto rt95 in pa and headed home. cruising along at 60mph when all of a sudden the motor starts making a horrible clattering. at first i thought i just knocked the exhaust loose on one of the many potholes i have to navigate each day(thankyou PA :finger
i looked down at the gauges and saw the water temp up to 240!!!! not good. i took the first exit in jersey adn slowed way the hell down. it is only about 7miles from the exit to my house.
i got about 1 mile closer to home when it clakced really loud and shut off. huge plume of white smoke out the exhaust and she went silent.
pulled off onto a side street and it was clear it was terminal. motor is locked up solid.
the up side, sort of, is that after a 3week back order my GM replacement motor showed up on monday. a swap i was planning to do tomorow eveing into saturday anyway. now i get to start tomorrow morning instead since i clearly can't drive the car to work.
dunno what the hell happened. oil level was just checked and topped off on tuesday along with all other fluids. nothign discolored at all when previously checked and never any sign of trouble until this afternoon.
whatever happened i hope there is no block damage. i wanted to rebuild it as a spare bullet, always nice to have one around apparently.
the car will be at grudge day if the weather is good. not sure if i will have enough miles on it to trust running it full tilt yet though.
later
tim