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- Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:48 pm #309344 No luck yet...

Leaning towards a bent valve... gonna pull the head again this weekend. take it to a machine shop have them replace any bad valves.
then hopefully get the car back together the weekend after...

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:04 pm #309355 Update!

Fired the car up this morning. ran super well... ideled at about 1500 rpms. then I went to drive it real quick, made it out of the parking lot, and then heard a clank, car shut off. so I coasted back into the parking lot in Nutral. tried to fire it up again and nothing.

Gonna start pulling her apart again, and see what is goin on... Sucks that this happened!

Really hoping I didnt break a piston and its just a bent valve, gonna get valves, spring and retainers.... take it to a machine shop. have them check the whole thing out again. and see what will happen then. in the mean time Ill also need to find a GSR Exhaust manifold for my set up. :/

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:24 pm #309356 If it is a bent valve, just know that once it is replaced your car will be running perfectly.

"If you want your car to be cheap and fast it wont be reliable... If you want your car to be reliable and cheap it wont be fast... If you want your car to be fast and reliable it wont be cheap"

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:25 pm #309357

If it is a bent valve, just know that once it is replaced your car will be running perfectly.

Looking to order new Valves for intake and Exhaust side, dont wanna mess around with it, also gonna replace the Springs and valve seals.

What is the Stock valve size for the GSR?

Intake ?

Exhaust? I cant find it anywhere?

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:36 pm #309358 33 mm Intake and 28 mm Exhaust, I believe.. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

"If you want your car to be cheap and fast it wont be reliable... If you want your car to be reliable and cheap it wont be fast... If you want your car to be fast and reliable it wont be cheap"

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:50 pm #309361 Just double checked. Those are correct. ^^

"If you want your car to be cheap and fast it wont be reliable... If you want your car to be reliable and cheap it wont be fast... If you want your car to be fast and reliable it wont be cheap"

- Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:56 pm #309362 Thanks man!

I love this fourm!

So looking like Ill be dropping right about a 1G into the head for a rebuild.

Got off the phone with NAPA, They said about $100 to take the valevs out, and put new ones in with springs and retainers.

So far What I have on my order list is:
16 BC Valves.
BC Springs and Retainers
Gates Timing Belt
Golden Eagle 84MM Head Gasket

Plus Ill have to spend another $40 on oil. I have plenty of Coolant here.
Gonna try to tear it apart tonnight to see where I stand with this whole thing.
If The Pistons are damaged I might have to throw in my B20Z in.
Really hoping there is no other damage to anything. if there is... I might cry.

Also Have to figure out my Throttle Cable issue.

Would a bad valve cause the car to not idel on its own, and make me have to hold down the gas?

- Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:16 am #309369 it really all depends on how many valves are bent, if you have a few valves bent it wont turn on at all.

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- Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:09 am #309414 So youre ordering all this stuff and youre not 100% sure its bent valves?

A little piss ant like you isnt worth being banned over.

Yea he has a bad habit of being overly sarcastic.. .. at the wrong times..

- Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:56 pm #309488 Well, pulled the head last night and it is not good.
both intake valves are broken on cylinder one, plug was snapped off.
#1 Piston dead. completly ate up.
The Cylinder walls are still good! IDK how that happened, must be cuz I turned the car off right as it happened.

Head is destroyed. when the valves broke it completly destroyed the valve seals. the whole combustion chamber is destroyed. about a 1/4in dents in it. really really bad damage...

Metal shavings went everywhere. through the intake... nothing thankfully went into the exhaust and didnt do any damage there.

So Gonna order some Wisco Pistons, Eagle rods, ACL Bearings. have to order a brand new GSR head.

This sucks that this happened. im kinda pissed at my self.

but ill have a much safer car now.

- Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:30 pm #309491 Damn dude . That sucks, sorry to hear about that.

Well after you install all those parts you will almost have a fully built Turbo B20V.

"If you want your car to be cheap and fast it wont be reliable... If you want your car to be reliable and cheap it wont be fast... If you want your car to be fast and reliable it wont be cheap"

- Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:20 am #309529 well at least it didnt damage the block...thats always a plus...i remember when my wifes chrysler new yorker got this werid noise sounded like something rattling around in the head...parked it took the left valve cover off and the valve train was worked so hard it litterly tore the housing for the valve train right out of the head and trashed it....how it was running on half an engine... lol

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- Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:38 pm #309558 Well Wisco 8.8-1 Pistons ordered
Manly H-Beam rods

and piston rings everything ordered and on the way

- Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:15 pm #309564 How much boost are you going to run?

"If you want your car to be cheap and fast it wont be reliable... If you want your car to be reliable and cheap it wont be fast... If you want your car to be fast and reliable it wont be cheap"

- Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:30 pm #309569 Bent/broken valves suck, thats for sure. Been there, done that. Mine broke at 9800

A little piss ant like you isnt worth being banned over.

Yea he has a bad habit of being overly sarcastic.. .. at the wrong times..