well shitoke mushrooms....i just got my heads and cam install finished up and drove it around for a while..i wont lie to you i was pretty hard on it after about a week of driving around easy..little did i know my tune was way off..i thought it would be ok since i had a cam before so i figured it would be close..come to find out it was running pretty lean..i dont know how that caused a spun bearing but i m gussing it did.. i was sitting at a light and i looked down at my oil pressure guage and it was jumping around 20 psi but was fluctuating like a mad man..**** i thought..i did leave the car running while i ran in to fetch some parts and the car got really hot like 225 and it spun the bearing right after this..(i guess) anyway i thought it was just the heat so i took it on the freeway and let if cool down and it held 35-40psi after it cooled down..i took it home let it cool then pulled the drain plug..**** there was quite a bit of grayish metal buildup on the end..i cut the filter open and found shavings all in it..last time i spun a bearing it looked alot worse..there are alot of tiny tiny shavings in it..almost like little specs of silver..but the oil had copperish tint to it. the weird thing was on some of the bigger pieces(that wernt that big) the shavings were "hairlike" i dont know how to describe it..they were really thin and ong like a hair?? the weird thing is..my oil pressure seems to be pretty good..i havent got it up real hot yet since then ...but i have started it once to back it out of the garage and another time just becuause i wanted to see what the pressure looks like..it jumped to 40 and when i blip the throttle it goes up with it and hits about 60psi..BUt i havent got the car real hot yet becuase im afraid to drive it..im going to tear it down but i just wanted to rule out everyhting before i start pulling it out..IF the oil pump were to be going out..could it alone cause the shavings, could it be anything else other than a bearing..i doubt it but its worth a shot..i cant hear any knocking but i have true duals with no cats and its so loud i dont think you could hear it knocking if 3 pistons were gone..could the lean conditon i so stupidly ran it hard on have caused the bearing failure.? any help condolences..shortblocks..hahahhah

by the way im gonna sell the car after i get if fixed..im tired of messing with it..ill let it go right now for 8700 as is. all mods in sig,plus spare tranny,spare set of new wheels and tires,spare ls1 intake..ok ill quit now theres more but its a shamless plug...haha

 

anyone...eveyone voting on a rod bearing?

 

Hard to say. Sounds like bearing material, but no way to find out other than going into the motor. Is that a built bottom end?

 

no sir,...it is a stock bottom end but only had like 10k on it..never even had a rod cap off of it..mobil one oil always,new ls6 oil pump when i put the cam and heads on at about 5k. motor came out of a 02 camaro. crazy it just spun..like i said it got hot sitting in front of the parts store..i dont know if thats what caused it or not..wouldnt think so since it wasnt in the red on the gauge..bout halfway between the middle mark and the overheating mark..i dont know...i just want to see whats going on with it..gonna try to pull the motor out the bottom this time instead of the top.