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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elev8/Levit8" data-source="post: 509582" data-attributes="member: 5744">Sounds like you've knocked the sump off.This would dump all the oil out of the bottom end.If so, then its possible it's chucked a rod, but unlikely I'd have thought...With no oil in the engine it'll run hotter & hotter until eventually it'll seize... If it seizes up under load (ie running) then lots of things can happen (rods etc). I'd expect you'd have to run it quite a while with no oil for it to seize solid tho.Did you run the engine for long after you clattered it? Do you know if it's definitely seized?I'd have thought maybe a couple of grand for swapping the lump, but it depends on how much you can get a replacement for... New-ish car like that I'd have thought you'd get one from a scrappy for not much, then it'd be a fair bit of labour... tbh if they'll write it off & pay you out reasonably, that'd be the way I'd go. There's no guarantees how well or how long it'll run on a recon engine, and you'd need a mechanic you can really trust.</blockquote>

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