Originally Posted by RedAP1S2K,May 20 2007, 12:10 PM

If that question was directed to me, the engine has 105k on it. It ran fine for 2 weeks after it was tuned. IMO Shawn Church is a great person and oustanding tuner. Also imo it was due to my own stupity. Pushing the car beyond its limits is what messed it up, not the quality of the tune.

I have an aftermarket oil filter relocator and cooler on it. Two of the lines are 5 feet long and the third is 3 feet long. Because of that i think i had a drop in oil pressure at high rpms. I was holding over 8k for about 30 secs or so in 6th trying to see if i could redline limit the speed of the car. Well now there is a weird tap that is only audible at idle. Anything other than that and its silent, even under hard reving. I think i either floated a valve and its slightly bent, or maybe scored the wall of the cylender if i had a pressure drop. Also the oil dipstick was blown out of the hole and i have crank vents. Who knows, it could be a million diffrent things. The only way to find out is to tear it apart and rebuild it.

No one has said how much it cost them to have it rebuilt. Is it one of those things that if you have to ask you cant afford it?

Originally Posted by RedAP1S2K,May 20 2007, 12:10 PM

If that question was directed to me, the engine has 105k on it. It ran fine for 2 weeks after it was tuned. IMO Shawn Church is a great person and oustanding tuner. Also imo it was due to my own stupity. Pushing the car beyond its limits is what messed it up, not the quality of the tune.

I have an aftermarket oil filter relocator and cooler on it. Two of the lines are 5 feet long and the third is 3 feet long. Because of that i think i had a drop in oil pressure at high rpms. I was holding over 8k for about 30 secs or so in 6th trying to see if i could redline limit the speed of the car. Well now there is a weird tap that is only audible at idle. Anything other than that and its silent, even under hard reving. I think i either floated a valve and its slightly bent, or maybe scored the wall of the cylender if i had a pressure drop. Also the oil dipstick was blown out of the hole and i have crank vents. Who knows, it could be a million diffrent things. The only way to find out is to tear it apart and rebuild it.

No one has said how much it cost them to have it rebuilt. Is it one of those things that if you have to ask you cant afford it?

Originally Posted by Soul Coughing,May 20 2007, 06:47 PM

sounds like you scored your cylinder wall... ill take a gander and say its cylinder #4... oh and what year is your car? did you get the newer banjo bolts?

sorry to hear about your motor... i've been there

Does it sound like this...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyBllnMZaLE

Originally Posted by gotswap,May 20 2007, 11:38 AM

No disrespect intended, I know they are on top of it over there. Was just curious as to the state of the engine during the tune. Sounds like the motor was a bit tired.

Originally Posted by batikan,May 20 2007, 06:32 PM

off topic but what top speed did you reach?

Originally Posted by batikan,May 21 2007, 08:45 PM

what i know is that the highest max speed ever reached was 175