Name me one other car that makes the power these cars do and recieves the same BEATING and lasts as long as these do... there aren't any. I've seen more honda 4-bangers blown up than i've seen LS1's.

My stock motor lasted 61k miles. It met its doom after a nitrous solenoid got some trash in it and stuck open while spraying a 250 shot. Didn't melt a piston or anything, had a HUGE nitrous backfire and subsequently sent enough force into the open cylinder to break the ringland.

 

LOL, that's what I see, looks to me like they hold up damn well.

 

How so?! Did you read my post? I was whippin' the **** out of that motor!! I can't think of another engine currently on the market that could take that kind of abuse.

 

I've blown two up

First was a rod bearing due to oil pump failure.
Second was a ringland/broken piston because of a lean condition / too much boost for the fuel system i had

 

I had a head gasket go bad and hydro-lock the engine.
Threw a rod a week after I fixed the head gasket the problem was not from the mods on my car. In fact the car was very strong until that point. Thats okay now I get a ls2 like my wife has.

 

**** now im scared-ive over revved many times.and well ls1 motors do use oil so my oil light has been on a few times...ive gone wot with no gas before(im a dumbfuck for that one)and just today i raced a 2001 c5 and i thought a downshift to 1st from 2nd was needed but i was wrong..the car almost stopped i over revved so bad but when i got into 2nd i pulled.seems fine but **** man im scred i might blow something up

 

yea i blew mine i spun my main bearings but... i think my problem was putting full sythetic oil in my motor at 120k driving the **** out of it and going out with my friend going for like miles at a time at speeds of 140 150 160mph at about 4800-rpm to 5500rpm it happened when i was racing a mustang cbra svt i was going bout 125 mph in auto tranny in third manually shifting it i shifted to 3rd a lil to late and hit rev limiter bout 10 more miles down the road ohh man my engine decided to start making its own songs .. shittiest sound ever to a mans ears but my mods included headers, msd wires ,ls6 cam,373 gears upgraded fuel system,ls6 heads reprogrammed computer

 

Consider some driving lessons

 

Any thoughts on oil pressure dropping during WOT? Stock 01 M6 ... 54K ... only seems to do it in 2nd....

 

I blew up my 99 Z28's motor w/55K miles on it. Spun two rod bearings & fractured a connecting rod. I had just put a TR230 & Patriot Performance heads on it. Well needless to say spinning the stock bottom end to 7K rpms & being one of the first "guinea pigs" for Patriot Peformance heads (shitty valve seals) didn't help.

Comes to be that the car went through 3qts+ of oil in 700 miles thanks to those valve seals.

 

I have yet to do it! But I will be trying in the near future. 454ci needs to happen soon!

 

Lost a chuck out of the #7 cyl ringland, but it drove fine for another 15k miles before it started smoking

 

Bent 7 of 8 con rods and broke a valve spring all at the same time.Damn, Im talented.

 

'01 ss, 48k miles... hydrolocked(diesel fuel in gas from Shell), #1 rod bent, twisted, and snapped. piston went up, no real damage to head or valves, but it took out the side of the block(a true original ls6 block), shattered the oil pan, cracked the front cover, broke the a/c bracket, and shattered the drivers side mount for the steering rack. All that JUST at start-up. Nows its been about a year since that happened. New setup is almost ready to go in.

 

basically watch your oil level and if your a 6 speed car no missed gears. what i see is missed upshifts that turned into downshifts. these motors will really take alot of abuse, just take care of them, change oil and have a correct tune ect...

 

did shell pay for the new motor????

 

nope. i got gas on a thursday evening, got home, did a header swap and installed suspension parts friday-sun. went to fire it up sunday, started ok, then over the next 5 min started to run like crap. car had been garaged from time i got home till i started it so i know the tank was not tampered with. I was pouring raw fuel out the tailpipe bigtime. I messed with it till wed. by swapping out one injector(#3) that got stuck open from the oily mix, but i didnt find #1 until it was too late. I had the tank drained and tested, over 2/3 diesel. i reported it to the local police and called the NJ department of weights an measures, who regulate gas staions and such, they got there and tested the inground tank. The state rep said it happens more than you think but in this case, the tank they checked had seemed to been cleaned that weekend and was filled with fresh fuel so they have no proof and my fuel wouldnt hold up in court. so i was out of luck, but my extended warranty covered a new long block. so that went in the came back out to be modded my way finally. so all in all i guess it worked out.

 

82k miles spun bearing...

 

What about any A4 guys with proper maintnence and oil level? My revlimiter is set to 6700 I was thinkin of raising it too 6900 but I dont want to risk blowing it up but I always run full synthetic oil changes every 3K and I check the level like every 3 days I drive it. Think I would have any problems?

 

see my above post...it was a heads and cam a4 car making 400hp to the wheels.. raced on the weekends, but had a moderate tune in it...