Look at these HEADS! Whoever on 3si sold Trev this car... You sir are an a-hole!

[dbest671]

who sold the heads? or if you could tell me what trevor's 3si name is, I can probably find the transaction myself.

[UTRacerX9]

Wow... I think he'll probably be ok once he gets the heads rebuilt though. I had a cam gear slip on me once, and it just barely contacted one valve on the front bank. I had happened to do a compression test about a week before, and all my cylinders were 165-168. After my one valve barely made contact (and being the right sized valve as well!) compression dropped to 156 in that cylinder. It doesn't take much.

[Boomer3000]

If he can't get those fixed... Reach out to me .. I may be willing to part ways with a set that I have. Just pay shipping to help a member out.

[ViperZ]

Wow, what a hack job, I've never seen a set of heads slapped together like that. That car must have been running like shit

[Ninja Performance]

That's sad, but over the years I have seen worse, in cars coming from shops that couldn't figure out why the car wouldn't start and or run after they rebuilt it. Only to find it was all jacked and needed a complete rebuild.

Keeps shops like us in business, but I would rather be upgrading then spending even more of the customer's money to re rebuild it.

-Chris

[J. Fast]

Any idea what the deal is with the rest of the engine? Did this guy work on the block? I'm a bit worried if all the cylinders compression is down that this guy isn't going to get by with a new set of heads. I can't believe somebody would mix valves like that. Tragic!


It looks like he tried to port the heads with the valves in. lol

A couple of other things I noticed when I pulled the heads, one of the the (2) main freeze caps located in one of the heads is stripped. The second thing was it looked like the deck height was never checked or something else? You can see bare metal on the crown edges of one of the pistons where it had been colliding with the pad on the head. There's no carbon residual at all. It's bare metal to bare metal. No heavy dimpling in the main portion of the piston just absolute 100% smacking metal to metal around the raised perimeter edges of the piston.

All bets are off on what the bottm end looks like. There was no metal in the oil pan or oil filter. I'm expecting to find a bent crank, busted wrist pin, or damaged rod on that cylinder when I get into the bottom end later on.

Going to do some more digging in it later and take more pics.

That's sad, but over the years I have seen worse, in cars coming from shops that couldn't figure out why the car wouldn't start and or run after they rebuilt it. Only to find it was all jacked and needed a complete rebuild.

Keeps shops like us in business, but I would rather be upgrading then spending even more of the customer's money to re rebuild it.

-Chris

This is why I do my own work. There has to be some way to manage someone advertising a car for sale. Maybe require a pre-purchase inspection to avoid prblems like this. Unfortunately I don't do this for a living, I do it for a hobby. Now it's turning into doing it for a 2nd job .

who sold the heads? or if you could tell me what trevor's 3si name is, I can probably find the transaction myself.

1997Gtx

[Boomer3000]

This dude seriously needs a dick smack in the face!!!! I could never knowingly sell a car that ran like shit/had these problems to someone who didnt know.. Wow that takes some kind of person.

[Frostedbutts]

The heads came with the car, I didn't buy just the heads separately. His name is 1997GTX aka Adam Rudolph, but he said he bought the heads second hand he when I bought the car (whether that is true or not, I have no idea). The heads weren't the selling point of the car when I bought it so I just took his word for it, and didn't really feel like digging into it to check if they were in fact DR Stage 3 heads.

I sent him an email with the pictures attached so we'll see if I get a response. He hasn't logged into 3si in a long time last I checked, so it's unlikely anyone will be able to contact him through there.

[TurboSinceBirth]

When I bought my car I knew the rear turbo was out. I didn't know and supposedly the previous owner on 3SI didn't know the engine was bad too. I only found out after I bought the car when I was going to swap in two new turbos that the center mains were spun. The engine wasn't knocking when it was running and I don't recall what the oil pressure was because I moved the car literally 20 feet under it's own power since I bought it 1.5 years ago, but the gauge wasn't flashing the warning light. If I hadn't taken things apart to do it right the first time, but instead just swapped in a rear turbo I would have had bad turbos and a bad engine so I'm glad I found it before I started driving around the car. All this time and thousands of dollars later I'm almost finished. It sucks finding things on a car that was completely unexpected.

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

wow, amazing it ran like that. What did the valves sound like with no guides on some of them?

Looks like LMI is building heads now.