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It was business as usual - except I heard some whistle from the engine bay, as if it were some belt or something... I popped the hood, listened... it wasn't hissing, like from a vacuum, nor it was belt whistle when I was up close... it did sound like a sharpening stone, the kind that rotates and you sharpen a knife - the tone was rather of a higher pitch, as if the knife was of a smaller statute... As I realized in hindsight, that was the timing chain cutting through the last remnants of the plastic guide... About 45 miles the car sounded like a tractor but sitting inside I had no clue - it was rolling fine, accelerating fine, no messages on the board... The passer-bys kind of flagged me, so I rolled the window down and that's when I heard "tractor"... while my slow brain was trying to apprehend what was going on, the dash lit up with some scary messages, and I started to pull off the main drag into some parking lot - as soon as I stopped, I just shut the engine off... it was off since that time... The engine is apart now, and the mechanic says that it might be better to get a used one and slap it in... it might work with normal engine, but stupid me got myself a rare breed... lol... me and mechanic are still talking about it... sooner or later, something is going to give... either we will get it fixed, or i will sell it as it is....
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