60k gone horribly wrong

[Nationalmilkman]

So I had a friend ask me to look into doing his 60k. Said the motor got hot and died. So I pulled the covers and and found a melted belt, frozen water pump and melted timing belt idlers. Here is what I had when I got it pulled apart.





Down side is I can free wheel the crank.

So here is my question: can I swap '91 TT heads to a '93 non-TT?

I know the cam sensor is different and can it be changed? Are the head bolts reuseable? We have a second set of heads and want this to be done as inexpensively as possible.

Any help would be great. Thanks to all.

[IPD]

afaik, you can swap all heads back and forth; you just have to work around the CAS. i don't know the specifics of doing that however.

[MR2]

wow that's fucking awesome!!! worse carnage I think I've seen EVER.

so what was wrong..something ceased?

[RealMcCoy]

So here is my question: can I swap '91 TT heads to a '93 non-TT?

I know the cam sensor is different and can it be changed? Are the head bolts reuseable? We have a second set of heads and want this to be done as inexpensively as possible.

Any help would be great. Thanks to all.

The best way out of this, is to buy a head gasket set with valve seals, and rob the needed valves out of the turbo heads. That way it's done cheap with parts you already have, without being a hack job...

Yes you can re-use the stock head bolts.

[Boomer3000]

I have some NA heads off my 95 sl if you need them... VSS needs to be replaced...

[Alex3000gt]

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Please keep us updated.

[TUFFTR]

Worse then the N/A DOHC I picked up :/

[Nationalmilkman]

TUFFRT, at least your pulleys are still in one piece.

MR2, the water pump bearings froze and the belt melted itself to everything.

So it comes down to pulling heads this week and we'll go from there. I'll post some pics when I get the heads off and see what the damage looks like.

[MR2]

Nasty!!

[GTOJOE]

Your pistons will be smashed up as well. Covered in marks from the valves so I would just replace the whole motor not just the heads. Was it a genuine water pump?