Motor do over!

[jack67rs]

Well, I knew it was a matter of time before I would have to yank the piece of crap out! So called self proclaimed pro engine builder did'nt get this one right, I would love to take it back to him and tell him to fix it. But I don't have any confidence in his ability to get it right. The motor smoked pretty bad on off throttle and down shifting, leaked oil from the back side of the block(wasted my clutch), and the valve train sounded like a singer sewing machine. I kept driving it hoping the rings might seat and I would only have to pull the tranny. And then it started falling on its face, losing boost and power mean while fouling plugs from the blow by. Well when I told the engine builder the problems, he had several excuses such as the afr heads he ordered are junk and the valve seals they used are junk and the valves they use are junk(recommended by him). He did'nt show any interest in getting to the bottom of all this and figuring out what was wrong.

Started tearing things down today and draining the fluids, the oil did'nt look bad. While removing the headers I saw something sticking out of the oil drain and turned out to be part of my Milodon diamond windage screen. can't wait to pull the pan now and see what happened.

And yeah I did a few tests, compression pressures and seemed decent and equal. Leak down test showed some different results, probably a ring problem. I'm going to have someone else tear it apart and I'll probably have them fix it.

Good things from this: I'll beable to really clean the engine bay now! I'm looking to find a better flowing intake and add methanol injection too.

Jack