dysan
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Got the engine out of the car today, took off the front cover, chains, etc and pulled the heads. Turns out the exhaust valve head broke off and caused the damage. My best guess is because they were stainless valves, the exhaust valve couldn't handle the heat from the supercharger and it gave way.
My current plan is to purchase a stock shortblock from Art Q on here which only has 32k miles on it...hopefully the cylinders are able to just be honed and kept stock bore. Going to speak with Michael from L&M engines tomorrow to get a rough estimate on building a shortblock using my crank, some new rods and some good coated diamond pistons from them. Get a set of FRPP cnc heads and shoot for 10:1 compression since I'm running on E85.
I also need to speak with Edelbrock to find out how much it will cost me to get the rotors and seals replaced in my supercharger since some small metal made it past my intercooler and I here/feel some interference when turning the blower by hand.
Here's some pictures of the carnage and amazingly enough, if it wasn't .020 overbored already I could probably have just had the cylinders bored and be good to go with new pistons.
EDIT:something seems to be up with photobucket since the pictures are sometimes working and sometimes not.
Plug that told me which cylinder was the culprit..
The seriously busted piston...
The chamber of the affected cylinder on the head..
The amazingly good looking bearing and journal from the hammered cylinder
My current plan is to purchase a stock shortblock from Art Q on here which only has 32k miles on it...hopefully the cylinders are able to just be honed and kept stock bore. Going to speak with Michael from L&M engines tomorrow to get a rough estimate on building a shortblock using my crank, some new rods and some good coated diamond pistons from them. Get a set of FRPP cnc heads and shoot for 10:1 compression since I'm running on E85.
I also need to speak with Edelbrock to find out how much it will cost me to get the rotors and seals replaced in my supercharger since some small metal made it past my intercooler and I here/feel some interference when turning the blower by hand.
Here's some pictures of the carnage and amazingly enough, if it wasn't .020 overbored already I could probably have just had the cylinders bored and be good to go with new pistons.
EDIT:something seems to be up with photobucket since the pictures are sometimes working and sometimes not.
Plug that told me which cylinder was the culprit..
The seriously busted piston...
The chamber of the affected cylinder on the head..
The amazingly good looking bearing and journal from the hammered cylinder
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