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Originally Posted by TatII
it probrably wasn't torqued right. or maybe they were drinking and chatting while building your engine. my professor did that on his hot rod but instead of not torquing the rod tight, the put the rod bearings on backwards and he blew that engine right up.
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Yeah, I'd say they just didnt have it torqued right. The engine is almost a year old, and it has probably a 100 passes. But still, an engine only a year old shouldn't throw a rod. So there's almost no doubt the bolts weren't torqued properly. And the guy that owns the shop raced this engine in a dirt car of some kind, and had just overhauled it when we got it.
I took the head that was on that side of the engine (the one with the bent valve) to the shop today to get a new valve. I haven't picked it back up yet, but I called the owner and he said he had to replace both #6 valves. Only going to cost me $40. That's not bad at all I dont think. Again, you just don't know how glad I am that it didnt get my heads, lol. I don't think you can get a better set of heads for a small block then what I've got. About the only thing I guess you'd want is for them to be alluminum, and that doesn't make them better (makes them weaker actually), just makes them lighter. But the 50 or 75 pounds I could save with alluminum heads wouldn't make a bit of difference in how the car runs.
Hopefully, this time tomorrow the 355 will be together and ready to run. I'm hoping to hear it by this time tomorrow. Or atleast around this time tomorrow.