This happened to me around 10 days ago, but didnt had the mood to post it around. So after 2 days and maybe 30 miles of driving around with the new engine, the car started to sound with a different exhaust note and after few mins the car died and never started again.
I got my car towed to the shop and started to inspect everything, at first, we thought It was a VCT problem, ( as I posted first here) that the drivers side phaser took a dump, damaging the camshaft and that caused the engine not to start again, well thats what we thought it was first.... So I ordered a set of lockouts and when Installing the lockouts again, the engine builder noticed a roller r. arm was a bit disaligned, he grabbed it and for his surprise (and mine) it was completely loose and we thought WTF ... we found that a Intake valve broke a little bit after the valve head and we knew this was more serious than what we expected
Next day they took my engine out of my car and took out both heads, the results were terrible ... the valve´s head that fell into the combustion chamber (Cylinder #5)and smashed all over the place, ruined a brand new JE piston, aluminum block, drivers side head, phaser and camshaft.
The cut of the valve was below where the valve seat ends, it was clearly that the valve broke first and it was not a valve-to-piston problem, since no other piston was even scratched by the valves, and if that was the case, valves should bend and not break, the rest of the valve that was still inside of the head and still there thanks to the valve lock, stood 100% straight, not even a single sign that the valve was hitted.
My valvetrain was:
Manley valves
Manley Titanium retainers
Manley Springs
Spring height was set as Manleys instructions, valve guides were new too.
So this is the result ....
Here, you need to pay very close atention, since the camshaft when torqued up, it doesnt have any space with the phasers inside part, thus the damaged camshaft, caused by the exhaust valve was bent because the intake valves head was pushed by the piston where the exhaust valve was, making it to get stuck in the head and leaned to phaser malfunction too.,,
New Ported BBR heads
New aluminum Block and pistons
And the broken Manley Intake Valve
Compared to stock intake and stock exhaust valves, notice where did the valve broke
The pics speak for themselves, this totally sucks ....
I already spoke with a guy from Manley today about this issue, he asked me to send the broken valve along with the other valves of the head for inspection, the package was sent today and I hope they are recieving it by monday or tuesday next week.
I hope I can work this out with them, it was a completely NEW longblock, everything new on it, 30 - 40 miles of use, never revved past 3K, and ya´ll know how expensive this things are to build, even more when I need to pay to get every single piece down here to Mexico, pay customs, taxes, etc ...
This completely sucks
I got my car towed to the shop and started to inspect everything, at first, we thought It was a VCT problem, ( as I posted first here) that the drivers side phaser took a dump, damaging the camshaft and that caused the engine not to start again, well thats what we thought it was first.... So I ordered a set of lockouts and when Installing the lockouts again, the engine builder noticed a roller r. arm was a bit disaligned, he grabbed it and for his surprise (and mine) it was completely loose and we thought WTF ... we found that a Intake valve broke a little bit after the valve head and we knew this was more serious than what we expected
Next day they took my engine out of my car and took out both heads, the results were terrible ... the valve´s head that fell into the combustion chamber (Cylinder #5)and smashed all over the place, ruined a brand new JE piston, aluminum block, drivers side head, phaser and camshaft.
The cut of the valve was below where the valve seat ends, it was clearly that the valve broke first and it was not a valve-to-piston problem, since no other piston was even scratched by the valves, and if that was the case, valves should bend and not break, the rest of the valve that was still inside of the head and still there thanks to the valve lock, stood 100% straight, not even a single sign that the valve was hitted.
My valvetrain was:
Manley valves
Manley Titanium retainers
Manley Springs
Spring height was set as Manleys instructions, valve guides were new too.
So this is the result ....
Here, you need to pay very close atention, since the camshaft when torqued up, it doesnt have any space with the phasers inside part, thus the damaged camshaft, caused by the exhaust valve was bent because the intake valves head was pushed by the piston where the exhaust valve was, making it to get stuck in the head and leaned to phaser malfunction too.,,
New Ported BBR heads
New aluminum Block and pistons
And the broken Manley Intake Valve
Compared to stock intake and stock exhaust valves, notice where did the valve broke
The pics speak for themselves, this totally sucks ....
I already spoke with a guy from Manley today about this issue, he asked me to send the broken valve along with the other valves of the head for inspection, the package was sent today and I hope they are recieving it by monday or tuesday next week.
I hope I can work this out with them, it was a completely NEW longblock, everything new on it, 30 - 40 miles of use, never revved past 3K, and ya´ll know how expensive this things are to build, even more when I need to pay to get every single piece down here to Mexico, pay customs, taxes, etc ...
This completely sucks