Broke Beehive Valve Spring
Broke Beehive Valve Spring Well I was driving around today and car starting running like ****. So I made it back to the house and checked it over. Lost compression on #6 cylinder. Pulled the valve cover off and the valve spring broke right near the top. I'm pretty pissed right now since I've only put about 100 miles on the motor. I don't know if I got more problems or just a bad spring. It's the 918 Beehive springs. I talked to plenty of people that said these were the ones I needed, so I got'em. So I did a search on camaroz28 and found 8 pages of people with the same problem. Have any of you with LT1's had problems with these springs? Or what kind you running? I will be calling Comp Cams tomorrow to solve this situation. Hopefully they will help me out. It was fun while it lasted 
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Originally Posted by 1slowZ28
Well I was driving around today and car starting running like ****. So I made it back to the house and checked it over. Lost compression on #6 cylinder. Pulled the valve cover off and the valve spring broke right near the top. I'm pretty pissed right now since I've only put about 100 miles on the motor. I don't know if I got more problems or just a bad spring. It's the 918 Beehive springs. I talked to plenty of people that said these were the ones I needed, so I got'em. So I did a search on camaroz28 and found 8 pages of people with the same problem. Have any of you with LT1's had problems with these springs? Or what kind you running? I will be calling Comp Cams tomorrow to solve this situation. Hopefully they will help me out. It was fun while it lasted
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Originally Posted by Captainofiron
got a set from Summit earlier this year, zero problems so far, and thats ******* my car alot too. Have about 300 miles so far, dont drive it too much
Originally Posted by 1slowZ28
Well I was driving around today and car starting running like ****. So I made it back to the house and checked it over. Lost compression on #6 cylinder. Pulled the valve cover off and the valve spring broke right near the top. I'm pretty pissed right now since I've only put about 100 miles on the motor. I don't know if I got more problems or just a bad spring. It's the 918 Beehive springs. I talked to plenty of people that said these were the ones I needed, so I got'em. So I did a search on camaroz28 and found 8 pages of people with the same problem. Have any of you with LT1's had problems with these springs? Or what kind you running? I will be calling Comp Cams tomorrow to solve this situation. Hopefully they will help me out. It was fun while it lasted
I would suspect installer error before a mechanical failure.
Originally Posted by BlackScreaminMachine
What size cam and was the valve spring installed height verified on ALL springs, if your near max lift, you NEED to have that done. I had a Bauer cam which was a lil beyond 918 springs and the installed height was done by him. Never an issue.
I would suspect installer error before a mechanical failure.
I would suspect installer error before a mechanical failure.
Installed height needs to be 1.800" I forget the coil bind becuase I dont have the spec card infront of me. if your height was 1.77-1.78, you needed to add shims. its been said you can shim up to 0.040" which was in range for your appication, more then that needed means the spring is inadaquate for your application.
Originally Posted by 1slowZ28
Well I was driving around today and car starting running like ****. So I made it back to the house and checked it over. Lost compression on #6 cylinder. Pulled the valve cover off and the valve spring broke right near the top. I'm pretty pissed right now since I've only put about 100 miles on the motor. I don't know if I got more problems or just a bad spring. It's the 918 Beehive springs. I talked to plenty of people that said these were the ones I needed, so I got'em. So I did a search on camaroz28 and found 8 pages of people with the same problem. Have any of you with LT1's had problems with these springs? Or what kind you running? I will be calling Comp Cams tomorrow to solve this situation. Hopefully they will help me out. It was fun while it lasted
Welcome back to planet earth...
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...=717173&page=1
http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...&highlight=918
Originally Posted by jasonisdn
in those other threads they have a list of batch numbers. if you guys wanna see if you have one of those batchs. hate to hear that 1slowz28, where is nc you live?
Originally Posted by dhdenney
I got duals before they came out with the beehives. However, if I needed springs I would definitely choose PAC.
Spoke to one of the techs at Comp and they were not very helpful. He just told me that I probably got a bad batch of springs. He wanted me to send them in so they could take at look at them and exchange for some new ones.
Well I really didn't want to take the heads off just to replace the springs. So I called Summit(originally bought from) and they were more than happy to send some new ones.
If I had known these where going to be a problem, I deff. would have went a different route. As for the installer error, don't think he would have got it wrong. Whenever he did the porting and valve job, he didn't like the Beehives for somereason. That should have been a sign
. He's coming to look at it this afternoon, so we'll see what he says.
Well I really didn't want to take the heads off just to replace the springs. So I called Summit(originally bought from) and they were more than happy to send some new ones.
If I had known these where going to be a problem, I deff. would have went a different route. As for the installer error, don't think he would have got it wrong. Whenever he did the porting and valve job, he didn't like the Beehives for somereason. That should have been a sign
. He's coming to look at it this afternoon, so we'll see what he says.
Originally Posted by BlackScreaminMachine
Installed height needs to be 1.800" I forget the coil bind becuase I dont have the spec card infront of me. if your height was 1.77-1.78, you needed to add shims. its been said you can shim up to 0.040" which was in range for your appication, more then that needed means the spring is inadaquate for your application.