Well i snapped an I valve, bent two (1I,1E) and killed the spark plug (all on 4) with my timing being out. So i get workin on the car last nite to get ready to pull the head and took off my intake manifold to hear **** rattling around in there... its the bottom of my valve, part of the guide, and part of the spark plug... along with a bunch of coolant and a lil gas. So basically my head is fucked. The whole cylinder is full of coolant so my best guess is the broken pieces gashed into the head where coolant runs and now i got a big leak

just a nice pic of the motor
cylinder 4 with fucked up valve n coolant
another shot of vavle n coolant
two across from each other that a fucked/bent
top view of fucked up valves

 

dear God thats a nasty looking manifold!

 

ooo dear. thats not good at all. good luck getting her pieced back together. sorry bout the loss.

 

haha it WAS gettin ready to turn blue

thanks, ill try


Even with 12-14° of Knock Retard it still pulled harder than a stock ss/sc

think i need a new angle vavle job on 4? maybe a little tig welds will fix it? more pics when i get the head off after i get back from my buddies funeral

 

I would just pull a head off a motor in the junk yard. I wouldn't weld anything...

 

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Just got done with a head job myself. But from experience if its cracked or anything just get a new(used) one that is not cracked.

 

Riggin **** is just gonna lead to a bigger boom down the road...

 

Just because welds are sometimes stronger than the metal itself. You have to think about this your heating the head up to extreme temperatures, and the weakest part of the weld is where the metal meets the weld.

I just don't trust welding something that critical.

 

plus you can get a used head for like ~100 bucks

how the hell did your car ever run like that?

 

So how did this happen? Did you just not check the timing? Or did you somehow mess it up without knowing? Didn't you hear anything?

Also, why are you using green coolant? No DexCool?

 

As long as he flushed the coolant system out very good before he put it in there should be no issue with him running the green coolant instead of DexCool.

 

It's a built motor that is why there is grn coolant in there. System was flushed.

 

Nick please take my advise next time don't drive the car before its ready

 

Oh ****....so how wasn't it ready?

 

It was out of time. My car was also out of time a little but we didnt do any valvetrain work on mine. I was scared driving it like that alone. Well i hope its something that wont cost alot

 

is this a joke? why would you think your car is ready to drive like that.

 

Lol like the avatar nick. good one

 

was this the car that sounded like a Singer and wouldn't idle in video from other thread?

 

That is a big 10-4.
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-2l-l61-performance-tech-45/stage-2-cams-caused-139921/

 

Get a spare head from a junkyard or something. Then just throw your vavesprings and cams onto that. That is assuming your pistons/sleeves are fine, probably are.

That would probably be your cheapest bet.

 

lets go junk yard hoppin today nick

 

Time to upgrade to a SS/SC? I have one for sale here in PA. Only 9,200 miles on it. Let me know.

 

Advertise much...its going to be hard to sell it right now. Recession & holiday session.

 

how much???

 

well the car was "in time" according to my mechanic. never trustin him again. and the **** just broke on its own, the timing was off like 2-3 teeth. i just spent 1100 on that head for the porting and polish. i dont got money to throw away like some do so if i get a new head it wont be ported