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Old 03-11-2016   #51
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Re: Project Corvette

Well the motor is disassembled and will be on its way to Doug Rippie Motorsports who originally built the motor and trans.

Ill see what he can with the shortblock. The crank looks good from what I can tell, the rod bent a little bit.

I also noticed that around 4 rockers had their trunnion bearings disintegrate, so I did some research and it looks to be a not too common problem but still exists when you upgrade to a large cam and dual valve springs. Stock rockers cant take that abuse and the needle bearings fall out slowly. Not sure if this was the cause of possibly the dropped valve, maybe? Ill talk to Doug about it.

Heres one idea for that rocker issue. Seems like these fail as well, so I need to check into what rockers to go with.

http://tech.corvettecentral.com/2012...r-arm-upgrade/

Clutch was on its last leg too, so ill have to replace the disk if I can get one.

You can see the bearing totally missing in this pic:



More carnage, bits everywhere.


Bent rod

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