Carl's 98 auto AWD project Black Magic

[CornFed2.4]

I got some valves ill give ya a bunch so you'll have back ups.

[scheides]

Well at least it stopped there and didn't chew up the piston/cylinder wall! That is crazy dude, definitely one for the books!

Get this thing fixed asap!

[turbotalon1g]

The car has been running good for the last month or so. I even drove it to Brainard lastwweekend and it was a smooth trip. Yesterday it desired to remind me that it was a DSM. It took. It into town and on the way back it started to misfire. After looking at it for a few hours I found that it threw a rocker on one of the intake valves. I think the lifter collapsed and allowed the rocker to eject during a pull I made right before the misfiring started. There is a slight scratch on the cam lobe, but no other real damage I am planning on replacing the lifter and and putting the rocker back in, and hoping for the best.

So the car didn't self destruct? :blind:

[carltalon]

So the car didn't self destruct? :blind:

No I'll take the blame on this one, even though I have no idea how the clamp got in there. It just seams like a DSM to be running perfect one minute the drop a cylinder the next. The car ran for over 600 miles with the clamp in the motor So I guess these DSMs are pretty badass.

[Tachyon]

The car ran for over 600 miles with the clamp in the motor So I guess these DSMs are pretty badass.

Indeed. Frankly I think they are some of the best engineered cars from that era when you think of what we are asking out of the original design parameters.

[carltalon]

I got the car all back together last night and it its running good again. I replaced the two valves (thanks Cornfed) cleaned up a few small dings in the head and the top of the piston and put it back together with new gaskets.
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while it was apart I took the oppertunity to coat my exhaust manifold with the extream high temp header coating I got from Ling ling. I had my buddy that did all my powder coating sandblast the manifold, paint it and cure it in his oven. it turned out so good it was a shame to cover it with the heat shield.
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Now I just need to fix my coolent temp sensor pig tail that has a loose pin in it and get my drag radials mounted and I will be ready for proving grounds.

[goodhart]

Got a nice sized crack on the bottom side of the manifold.

[goodhart]

Got a nice sized crack on the bottom side of the manifold.

[C3L1CA]

Nice job getting it back up and running so quickly!

[carltalon]

Got a nice sized crack on the bottom side of the manifold.

Yeah I think that's been there for awhile. It doesn't go all the way through. The coating just makes it stand out. Mabey some day I'll step up to a FP manifold..