Carl's 98 auto AWD project Black Magic

[carltalon]

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.

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by carltalon

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?

[carltalon]

Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

So the car didn't self destruct?

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]

Originally Posted by carltalon

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.