Car was acting strange today while running my buddy's stang, changed the oil tonight and found this on my drain plug. Had class early, was too lazy/tired to pull the vavle covers afterwards.

 

time to upgrade and cam it bummer man

 

They're PRC dual springs

 

your lucky they are duals. I had some 918 singles break and that was scary

 

I would have just drove the car off a cliff if I had dropped a vavle, its a brand new engine.

 

I know, I was about to have mine crushed. Bought the car all stock. Ran nice but had to mess with it. i done a cam swap and the hell began. After a couple 100 miles it developed at bad tick, tried every differant length pushrod made, nothing helped. Then broke 8 of the comp 918 springs so then I switched to duals. ran good for just a bit and started ticking again. So I pulled the heads and put new lifters in AND a new cam again. Going back togethor I moved the ac condensor too much and broke the ac line. So now my air doesn't work. Anyway after all the **** it still ticks Not bad but I can hear it. It was quiet before I messed with it. I even have the correct length pushrods so maybe the ticking is normal with a cam, hell if I know. But I was very lucky when my single springs broke. It could of been bad.

 

Better hope that you don't have some spring metal bouncing around in your bottom end. That made it all the way to the plug? YIKES!

 

Ahhh! Stop the storys! Im installing my cam and 918's soon...

 

^DONT DO IT MAN!!! youll regret it.

 

Looks like the upper pieces of the outer valvespring to me. I wouldn't drive it around anymore until I fixed that. How many miles on the springs?

01ls1lover: Not everyone has bad luck with a cam swap. Mine's going strong with almost 30k miles on it.

 

How many miles on those springs? What cam are you running? Important info here, lot of people with PRC springs...like me

 

Maybe a spark plug is loose.

 

Me too!!

 

What caused this?! How many other failures have there been?

I'm going to be installing Patriots Gold Extreme springs and I'm pretty sure they come from the same factory.

 

what's a matter? I'm not scaring you guys am I? I just had some bad luck for a while.

 

About 7K on the springs. Running the TTP V4 Punisher cam which is a large comp cam, especially in the lift.

 

What are the specs? Or at least approx. specs?

 

HUUUWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT??????

 

did you run the car hard as soon as you started it? surpose to let them heat up before you go WOT

 

Well, no...

Correction "They WERE PRC dual springs"

My question is what was installed height and clear at max lift?