Shoulda bought the extended warranty I guess. LOL bummer
The valve head didn't make it all the way to Mr. oil pan like the piston.I'd bet it went over to the pistons house and they both went to visit Mr. oil pan.
That sucks man.
Do you suppose all those chunks in the valley came out through that crack?
Looks like it.
The valve head? They found it down in that hole into the water jacket.
There wasn't any cylinder wall remaining on the cam valley side of the engine.
Sah good question! It's kinda like this, I didn't build that engine.Yeow, that sucks.
I hate to ask because I don't want to come across like I never screw up but how did it not occur to you that the valves might hit?
Sah good question! It's kinda like this, I didn't build that engine.
We were over fiddle-farting with our engine.........
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..............and we hear a WHUMP over from Comp Cam's dyno room. I took those pictures as they tore the engine down.
With ours, the only problem we had was they forgot to turn the water into the engine before they fired it. I was looking at the dyno control panel thinking something is wrong, when the engine made some weird noises and the operator shut it down. Eight exhaust valves stuck to the bronze guides and the guides were moving up and down in the 906 heads with the valves.
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My boys on the left and their cousin on the right in Comp's dyno room. After some repairs it made 730 HP.
Interesting on the h.p. Whats the engine got in it? would like to compare it to mine. Thinking 723 here. Really sucks on the small block !!
A little JB Weld will fix you right up.
451 or 470?
I thought you'd given up the engine building gig?The 451 made 723 on Comp's dyno and 787 a few weeks later. We felt like this 500 could make close to 800 before it got toasted. The short block still sets in an AREngineering engine dolly beneath the shops electrical fuse panel. One just never knows, does one?