69 Camaro at Best of Show

[Moparigno]

Hi, I like your exhaust tips. Where you got it ?

[Matt@BOS]

Marty, it can be ordered through improvedracing.com

Still don't know how well the pan actually works. I made only a few passes at RTTC this weekend. I figured it would be fun to keep things a little quiet, until I was there, but I swapped more than just an oil pan. My LS2 needed to be gone through, and I wanted to add more power to it. Turns out it was cheaper to buy an entire motor. I need to thank David Pozzi for letting go of Bad Penny's old 454 LS2. It dropped right in. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that something went wrong when it was being dyno'd. I'm going to figure out exactly what is wrong next week.

Moparigno, the exhaust tips are from the Mercedes parts department. They are off of an SLK, if I remember correctly...

Matt

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by 69MSA

Marty, it can be ordered through improvedracing.com

Thank you

Originally Posted by 69MSA

Still don't know how well the pan actually works. I made only a few passes at RTTC this weekend. I figured it would be fun to keep things a little quiet, until I was there, but I swapped more than just an oil pan. My LS2 needed to be gone through, and I wanted to add more power to it. Turns out it was cheaper to buy an entire motor. I need to thank David Pozzi for letting go of Bad Penny's old 454 LS2. It dropped right in. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that something went wrong when it was being dyno'd. I'm going to figure out exactly what is wrong next week.

454 LS2 - that is Awesome. I love that motor

Maybe version 2 of the 2nd Chance Camaro will get that motor.

[Bryan O]

^^^And I never got my hush money.

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by syborg tt

Thank you



454 LS2 - that is Awesome. I love that motor

Maybe version 2 of the 2nd Chance Camaro will get that motor.

Marty, it is entirely possible that in the time that it takes you to get the 2nd Chance Camaro on the road, you might have the opportunity to by a newer one of Penny's engines - and I'm not making a jab at you based on how long the last project took. If the second chance Camaro took that long you'd probably get Penny's old flux capacitor

Bryan, sorry but the hush money I had stashed away for you will probably be going towards a new head gasket, and whatever else carnage I will be looking at once it gets torn down. I'm hoping for the best, (but the coolant, of which there is a noticeable amount missing) appears to have some oil in it. It spit a bit of white smoke when I picked it up from the dyno shop, and got up between 210-230 on my way back home from RTTC. I'm guessing that when the radiator cap blew off on the dyno, it was because of the blown head gasket. I'm certainly no mechanic, so hopefully I'm wrong...


Matt

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by 69MSA

Marty, it is entirely possible that in the time that it takes you to get the 2nd Chance Camaro on the road, you might have the opportunity to by a newer one of Penny's engines - and I'm not making a jab at you based on how long the last project took. If the second chance Camaro took that long you'd probably get Penny's old flux capacitor

Matt

Dude that hurt

[Chad-1stGen]

Sucks to hear about your motor problems Matt :/

Good luck with an easy diagnoses.

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

Sucks to hear about your motor problems Matt :/

Good luck with an easy diagnoses.

Thanks Chad!

Had the guys down the street at JR Competition do a leak down test on the car. Cylinders 5,7 and 8 are all pushing air into my coolant. Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. Re-sleeved blocks should be brought up to temperature and then need to have the head bolts re-torqued, so long as you're using ARP bolts, for example, and not torque to yield factory ones. This is expressly stated by Steve Demirjian of Race Engine Development who re-sleeved the block for Steve Rupp. Between Dick and I we must have asked the shop that dyno'd the car to be sure to re-torque the head bolts half a dozen times. The last time Dick asked, they said they checked a bunch of them and they were tight. What the hell does that mean??? I wouldn't be so upset, except for the fact that in this scenario it is hard to imagine the head gaskets failing for any other reason...

Good news is that it doesn't look like I have water in my oil.

Matt

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by 69MSA

Thanks Chad!

Had the guys down the street at JR Competition do a leak down test on the car. Cylinders 5,7 and 8 are all pushing air into my coolant. Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. Re-sleeved blocks should be brought up to temperature and then need to have the head bolts re-torqued, so long as you're using ARP bolts, for example, and not torque to yield factory ones. This is expressly stated by Steve Demirjian of Race Engine Development who re-sleeved the block for Steve Rupp. Between Dick and I we must have asked the shop that dyno'd the car to be sure to re-torque the head bolts half a dozen times. The last time Dick asked, they said they checked a bunch of them and they were tight. What the hell does that mean??? I wouldn't be so upset, except for the fact that in this scenario it is hard to imagine the head gaskets failing for any other reason...

Good news is that it doesn't look like I have water in my oil.

Matt

FCUK...!!! You know how I feel about that Matt. Remember all the smoke at the gas station? How wierd was that?

Hope the repair goes quick Bro. At his point I'd check everything. JR knows what he's doing...

[KPC67]

Not cool Matt. I hope it gets resolved without too much hassle. This just makes me even more nervous about finding a quality shop to work on my 454.
Let us know how you make out.