wicked 98z

Im just taking a poll on how many people have blown there motors up?

wicked 98z

And How did you blow it up?

And What mods did you have?

Texas Terminator

blew a hole in the infamous #7 piston. this was in a 2k silverado with a 4.8. motor was supercharged with about 10# or so, 160 stat, ls-1 edit (factory timing). that's about it. going to 6.0 block and lunati 408 stroker kit.

PurEvl

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blew it at 13000. Snapped the timing chain in 3rd at 6600 rpm. Kissed all 8 pistons, bent every single valve. Collapsed a few lifters and shaved a lobe of the cam. Oh and cracked two head bolt holes on the block. I had ARE Stage1 heads milled .030 the thunder 224 cam. And every single bolt on there is. It sucked too cause I just put my moser in with 4.10's. This was in july of 2002, car still aint done as I have put another 10 grand in it. New heads, bigger cam, wilwood breaks, corbeau seats, race carpet, k-member, upper/lower a arms, etc etc. Also now I have a forged LS6 with a 3.905 bore. Nothing like a 60000 dollar POS Camaro <img border="0" alt="[jester]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_jest.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" />

<small>[ February 11, 2003, 08:21 PM: Message edited by: 5-liter-eater ]</small>

BADZ

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Shattered a rod in number 6 and part of it knocked a hole in the block. Timing chain gone as I think it was a rod bolt broke but who knows, spinning it to its max 7000 rpms.... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

BADZ

iTrader: (5)

Snapped a rod in #6 and timing chain also went, spinning the engine to max 7000 rpms could have been the reason it went so fast @ 21k miles <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

wicked 98z

1st motor n2o. (warrenty) 25k miles

2nd motor h/c little n2o Rod bolt broke at 6500 RPMs. It was nasty! 13k miles

3rd motor h/c 5k miles spun rod bearing

First 2 where stock replacements but the 3rd was a rebuild with aftermarket stuff exept rods.

Here is a link to the pics for number 2.http://community.webshots.com/album/35450628kTsRbW

Viper

iTrader: (6)

Oil pump let go at 35,600 miles. Destroyed bearings and crank. Rebuilt info in my sig.

And for the record, that would be GM's fault, not mine.

<small>[ February 12, 2003, 02:13 PM: Message edited by: Viper ]</small>

Orange Krush

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by wicked 98z:
<strong> And How did you blow it up?

And What mods did you have? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">28,589 miles and I haven't yet! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Their in the sig! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" />

<small>[ February 12, 2003, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Orange Krush ]</small>

Pro Stock John

iTrader: (34)

1) Spun a rod bearing with my H/C car after spraying 150 shot out of the toll plaza.

2) Snapped a timing chain and bent all the intake valves in a built 346ci motor.

LQ4somona

Haven't blowen up an LS style motor yet! But I have had a 350 gernade at about 7000-7200 rpm. It is not a pretty site. Slightly pricy.

Whistler

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Busted a ringland off # 7 piston. 45K miles.

Aftermarket fuel pump went bad, went lean at the track spraying a dry 100 shot. Pretty gnarly looking... piston and combustion chamber looked like they were attacked by a dozen steel-beaked woodpeckers.

andy98Z

iTrader: (4)

I had stock internals and 5177nos, vig3200. Detonated #7 piston. Blew head gasket on other side.

Visceral

iTrader: (1)

Rod bolt broke at about 1000' and 6700 rpm in 3rd. The rod took out the rest of the motor, sending several bits through the side of the block. Not pretty. Its taken me awhile to get the car in a high enough priority to get a new motor, but MTI is building me a very stout 346 now. Fortunately my stupid ARE heads survived, so they will probably continue to hassle me ;-)

chris

Country Boy

iTrader: (24)

Blew the ringlands off of #7 (seems to be the cylinder or concern after reading this <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="gr_sad.gif" /> )spraying a 200 wet shot and the fuel solenoid swelled shut and dyno operator didnt know to stop when A/F went 18:1++ <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="gr_eek2.gif" /> Bent 9 pushrods, lost 1 piston, bent 2 intake valves.

Nitrous is evil <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" />