Tore our motor down

[Magnethead]

we were having issues with blow-by all year long...leaked down 0%, full pressure in every hole.

I'll let the pictures do the 1,000 words thing. We had 3 pistons come out this way. #7 intake spring was weak, and the cam button was broke and spitting metal everywhere.

On the year: (no order, just as I thought of them)

1. floated a valve @ 7600 rpm
2. Timing chain link
3. cam button
4, 5, & 6. 3 piston second rings
7. an EGT probe
8. master cylinder
9. bent the stripetaker
10. had the fuel cap come off and spray the motor in fuel (didn't catch fire, never did find the cap)
11. Had the water overflow tank cap come loose and slosh water on the track
12 & 13. broke 2 alternator belts
14. had the electrical plug for the radiator fan melt
15. Weak valve spring, #7 intake, 200 pounds to unseat

 

[#17D500winner]

Floated a valve? I thought that only happened to old Dodges

I do like that power bar running across you bench, though.

 

[Magnethead]

Yea the power bar comes in handy. The air line doesn't get used much, but it's there if we need it.

Our head guy wants us to go to titanium valves but we don't want to go that direction....we barely got a season out of these valve springs.

 

[Magnethead]

Driveline for next year has been decided.

In true Ken Black spirit, the only pictures of the motor will be with a black cover over it.

 

[#17D500winner]

Driveline for next year has been decided.

In true Ken Black spirit, the only pictures of the motor will be with a black cover over it.

I remember Glidden barrel rolling one time in a pretty spectacular crash and when he crawled from his wrecked mess of a car he noticed the carb had been torn off so he immediately covered the exposed intake.