well my ******* wasnt paying attention and put it into 2nd instead of 4th.

i wasnt racing or beating on my car but it was a little spirited and i let my foot off the clutch a little fast.

rpm jumped up to 8. lol.

anyways, car runs like total ass. i had to limp it home and it barely made it. i have massive misfires on cylinders 3 and 4, my map sensor went out, and all kinds of wierd stuff.

luckily, theres no smoke at all, i believe the bottom end is fine.

im going to take off the valve cover tomarrow and see what the damage is. im pretty sure i obliterated the lash adjusters or something, its pretty bad.

i had no power and my bov was going crazy too.

anyway, im pretty embarrassed i did this but **** happens.

any advice would be greatly appreciated. i dont have much money at all to fix this unless i decide to go through insurance (which i dont unless the engine is effed.


Decided to make a video so u guys can hear the damage

2012-03-29_22-10-58_663 video by dvskateman - Photobucket

 

damm any knocking sound at all? sorry to hear that man


i say your rockers went hopefully one is not wondering in the head or something

 

Aw man, that's ******* awful to hear

Guaranteed you messed the valvetrain big time. Pop that valve cover off and you might see a nice mess of lash adjuster, rockers and quite possibly some bent valves...

Time to get a new upgraded fully assembled head from ZZP.

 

yea it was knocking allright.

also had knock retard from 3-5 all the way home

how hard are the lash adjusters/ rocker arms/ head stuff to fix?

 

i hope not but it is possible.

and i really dont have the money for a new head dunno what im going to do.

im in the army and live paycheck to paycheck

 

omg, noooooo...
so sorry man..i hope u have the funds to fix it right now, i know i sure wouldnt be able to.

 

check under you valve cover first, but to fix this i would say replace the whole head if valves are bent or demage is worse than that. just dont turn on the car anymore until you sort things out.

 

Thats rough dude. Your best bet might be through the insurance if its that much :/

 

First step as mentioned is pull the valve cover and go from there. Take pictures of things in question so we can help.

I think it's time to start a Dart_SI fund raiser!

 

Dude...just had the whole new setup too..sorry bro.

 

ill have the valve cover off tomarrow after i get off work.

im pretty sure its going to look like metal confetti under there. i had to drive 30 miles to get home. should have put that in. lol. no choice, i was in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone signal

another reason why kansas is gay.

 

Yeah not the ideal place for that to happen ;/

 

Let me know if I can help. Lets get her back up and running!

 

Im sorry to hear that.. hope everything works out. I did the same thing in my old 2.2 luckily I didn't hurt anything

 

Post an ad looking for a used lnf head. Inspect the used head to make sure it is in good condition. Buy a new headgasket from zzp. Put the used head on. Done.

 

That reminds me!

Mongorat has a BRAND NEW LNF head for sale for like $450 shipped!!!

Fully assembled too!

 

Hopefully that'll save you. Sucks to hear this **** ;[

 

thanks for the support guys. ill make sure i post pics of the damage tomarrow so we can figure out what to do.

looks like a brand new stock head from zzp is about 860. so worse case the car will be down for a month or two.

 

i dont have 450 right now, but that is definently good to hear. i may pm him later.

how hard is it to swap out the head? ive never done it before.

 

Right after the turbo swap too.. And it wasn't even because of the turbo! Always happens that way man, sorry to hear.

 

I've done this same thing. I just snapped a lash adjuster. I got luck that it didn't roll around and hit any of the rockers and cause any problems.

 

I can't wait to see pics of this!

 

sorry to hear dart! hopefully you're back up and running soon so you can get some more kill vids up with the new turbo goodluck!

 

Word of caution. If you end up with bent valves, the piston needs to get swapped too, or you'll likely end up with some extra knock there from the nick in the piston.

 

the best part was i was going to get a retune and dyno #'s this sunday. oh well, the process is delayed.