I've never had luck this bad. A friend was bringing my car to me, (I have some licensing issues that will be resolved Tuesday when the local DMV is open, and I don't want to risk anything until then), and he calls me and says the motor is making an awful noise.
My girlfriend brings me to where he is, and the noise is godawful knocking. We had some basic tools on site, and I took off the driver's valvecover, foud some marring on the inside of it, and when I went to match the mar to which rocker (they all were bolted down ok). When I saw the rocker, the spring was uncompressed, the retainers were laying in the head, and the spring topplate and insert were laying outside the spring as well. The pushrod was bent at least 1/8" outwards, and the valve stem was showing at least an inch out of the head, but it wasn't moving anywhere.
Pending my teardown tommorow to get the head off and also check the other valve cover, what should I be doing? I've never had a motor go boom on me like this... I am building that 351W block, but I am no where near completion, and I am not going to go cheap and get it built asap and be stuck here again in a year. At this point I just want to get the car back on the road as soon as possible as cheap as possible to make it safe until I can finish my 351W project.
So, if I am lucky, could I be out a valve, guide, some machining on the head, pushrod, other valvetrain parts, headgasket and headbolt (and intake gasket)? Or is it likely I've got lower end issues as well? What about my cam?
The engine was a GT40P head with the GT40 valvetrain kit, E303 cam, stock 95 longblock. Stock rockers as well.
I could just kill my buddy who was bringing it to me, but who knows, I guess it could have been a preexisting issue (tho I really think it was high-rev valve float)
Also, I may just ship the car out to Scottsdale now and just work on it when I fly out on the 12th. I'm not sure what the best route is, though I really need to accellerate my plans on getting the 351W done.
My girlfriend brings me to where he is, and the noise is godawful knocking. We had some basic tools on site, and I took off the driver's valvecover, foud some marring on the inside of it, and when I went to match the mar to which rocker (they all were bolted down ok). When I saw the rocker, the spring was uncompressed, the retainers were laying in the head, and the spring topplate and insert were laying outside the spring as well. The pushrod was bent at least 1/8" outwards, and the valve stem was showing at least an inch out of the head, but it wasn't moving anywhere.
Pending my teardown tommorow to get the head off and also check the other valve cover, what should I be doing? I've never had a motor go boom on me like this... I am building that 351W block, but I am no where near completion, and I am not going to go cheap and get it built asap and be stuck here again in a year. At this point I just want to get the car back on the road as soon as possible as cheap as possible to make it safe until I can finish my 351W project.
So, if I am lucky, could I be out a valve, guide, some machining on the head, pushrod, other valvetrain parts, headgasket and headbolt (and intake gasket)? Or is it likely I've got lower end issues as well? What about my cam?
The engine was a GT40P head with the GT40 valvetrain kit, E303 cam, stock 95 longblock. Stock rockers as well.
I could just kill my buddy who was bringing it to me, but who knows, I guess it could have been a preexisting issue (tho I really think it was high-rev valve float)
Also, I may just ship the car out to Scottsdale now and just work on it when I fly out on the 12th. I'm not sure what the best route is, though I really need to accellerate my plans on getting the 351W done.