Basically when it comes to engines, you either have a time or mileage warranty. If you went 3 years but no miles then you're warranty is void if the warranty lasted up to one year. If you drove the car 100k miles in 6 months and the warranty ends at 70k then its void. Sorry bro, you gotta make good use for paper weight or give it to some kid who wants to build a hot rod for a 100 bucks. Try craigslist and sell it as "best offer" (auction), maybe something will bite.

That is why I do all the work I can myself...of course if the head needs to be machined, then that's out of my hands, but I will do everything else. Sucks man...really sucks! I'm rebuilding my 1993 Honda accord. Finishing the valves up tomorrow...yeah!

It was Dirty Harry from Gorillaz.

I always figured the Nazis would recoup in some other country besides Germany. I guess its Czechoslovakia.

The country that blocked OICW's youtube.

But we have only republicans, independents, and democrats (and some exclusive clubs ).

I'm not gonna ever buy an Eagle Talon, its a piece of shit!

Saturn tried that and look where it got them when people cared more about what busty celebrity was hawking which car on TV. It gets to the point where car commercials convey no information about the car except the company logo after showing some hot chick grinding away in the seat while listening to some funky music, the losers only remember that the emblem reminds them of something they liked somehow.

I wonder what car ad this video used to make their video!

As with anything "original" done by the Japanese, they were beaten to it by the French:

Except Nanking, of course. I don't think the french have yet managed to get their genocide body count even close to the quality car maker nations.

If you can't salvage it, at least keep a piece of it... To remind you that failing sucks.

I took the head individually to be rebuilt, and later, the bottom-end to be assembled with a kit I bought myself (bearings, piston pins, and rings).

Saturn was GM finally realizing that the Japanese had superior manufacturing processes so they made a half-assed attempt to try it. They never bothered to copy the value, however. As for durability, I can't confidently say either way. I haven't researched them other than hearing about my friend's Saturn catch on fire right after he got out to return a blockbuster movie.

It seems to me the grand failure of Saturn was a lack of commitment from GM's executives--as if to prove the Japanese methods wrong. Ironically, the methods were taught by an American. But that's just my own speculation.

I was talking engines with a friend and brought this up. He said it sounds like some kind of timing issue... Maybe mechanical, but neither of us are mechanics. I've got no experience with anything bigger then a lawnmower.

Another friend of mine rebuilt his van with some 'awesomeness' engine and customized the hell out of it. He always had compression problems with it until he realized that he had some kind of intake/compression thing backwards. I don't know engines that well so I wouldn't know what it was, but he even had custom connectors and valves so he could remove the engine easily...

Anyway, my point is it could be something simple that you thought was setup correctly... And look on the bright side. You could always use it as an over-sized potato cannon... if you can get enough compression in the tail pipe that is ;P

Yeah, the people with most money are supposed to be the big bosses who live a classy life, spending their money on opera tickets. And big clumsy cars. I was wondering what happened with the BMW cars back in the 80's. We used to have these:
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2002 Tii. Small but sporty. And cool design. Then they started to do this kind of cars:
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750i. Less sporty what comes to design. Bigger, more expensive. The whole marketting concentrated on the big money people. They simply started to compete with Mercedes. The people wo really enjoyed the 2002 Tii and similar, simply didn't have enough money.