Blown motor
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99% YOUR CAR IS FINE, DO NOT REMOVE THE HEAD AT THIS POINT!!!!!!!!
Firstly we missed a tooth on s2kdudes motor and it ran for a day just fine one tooth off. Just had trouble starting, didn't even run that rough honestly, we would have heard it but the exhaust was removed at the cat, we moved it around the parking lot this way no problem.
There's no way in hell it'd blow the motor one tooth off. It'd just have a hell of a time starting, it'll back-fire a bit, if you crank long enough it'll probably do it as his did but frankly we didn't worry much and there's no reason to if it's just being idled and barely driven like that though I'd never recommend driving further on it like that. No way will it bend a valve from the piston hitting it, it'd have to be like 3+ teeth off to do that or maybe quite a bit more to do that.
Fix the position and go drive your car, I bet nothing at all is wrong with it.
A compression test will tell you everything is fine, if one number is 15% off from another cylinder please post the results and we'll go from there but I bet strongly they're all just fine. If not a leak down is the next step but seriously.... HIGHLY doubt it.
TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I've done a few top ends and if it was life and death I'd take more care but I know it's not a life and death situation so relax.
-Greg
Firstly we missed a tooth on s2kdudes motor and it ran for a day just fine one tooth off. Just had trouble starting, didn't even run that rough honestly, we would have heard it but the exhaust was removed at the cat, we moved it around the parking lot this way no problem.
There's no way in hell it'd blow the motor one tooth off. It'd just have a hell of a time starting, it'll back-fire a bit, if you crank long enough it'll probably do it as his did but frankly we didn't worry much and there's no reason to if it's just being idled and barely driven like that though I'd never recommend driving further on it like that. No way will it bend a valve from the piston hitting it, it'd have to be like 3+ teeth off to do that or maybe quite a bit more to do that.
Fix the position and go drive your car, I bet nothing at all is wrong with it.
A compression test will tell you everything is fine, if one number is 15% off from another cylinder please post the results and we'll go from there but I bet strongly they're all just fine. If not a leak down is the next step but seriously.... HIGHLY doubt it.
TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I've done a few top ends and if it was life and death I'd take more care but I know it's not a life and death situation so relax.
-Greg
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