LT1 Tech
Guys, It WON'T be going up tonight. I just got home after a 5 hour drive on just a few hours sleep, in a RENTAL car from Ft. Wayne. Popped the motor in my Vette last night, thrashed the valve train pretty good. So I had a pretty sleepless night (tow didn't happen til' almost 3:30). I've still got to get this rental car to the airport and get home, so I'm out until about 10 PM tonight it looks like. After that, I'm ironing my uniform and going to bed. I'm going to start downloading everything and installing it all tomorrow night.
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The vette thing is sorted out. One of the local guys in Ft. Wayne is in the process of pulling the heads so we can check the short block and see if I trashed it also. Essentially what happened was I was racing Call911 and giving as good chase as I could, and wasn't paying attention and hit the limiter HARD at full throttle top of third gear. Got into fourth, and at 4500-5000ish RPM the car just jbucked really hard once and went dead. The cam gear sheared off from the cam taking all three bolts and the dowel pin with it. According to the guy with the car, there's a lot of metal everywhere, a few mangled pushrods, and at least 5 exhaust valves STUCK open. Yeah, I tore it up good. 
I'm getting ready to download some pics and I"ll post them up for those wanting to see.
So, I'm running on nothing right now. I think I still have tomorrow night off in which case I have to make a line lock kit for a Vette guy and get it ready, then I'm going to hit the website running. More to follow.
I'm getting ready to download some pics and I"ll post them up for those wanting to see.So, I'm running on nothing right now. I think I still have tomorrow night off in which case I have to make a line lock kit for a Vette guy and get it ready, then I'm going to hit the website running. More to follow.
The suck factor is I'm going to drop at a min about $1500-1700 to get the new setup in and on provided teh short block is ok. That's money that should have gone to the LT1 car. 
Outta here for tonight, will hopefully have website progress tomorrow.
Outta here for tonight, will hopefully have website progress tomorrow.
