oh my god! i took off the rear valve cover to see whats going on. I see this crack on the cam..so i was like oh whats this? then i see its snapped in half!!! man! ive never seen this before...what a POS, my bulletproof motor has a broken cam...

 

No so bullet-proof after all huh?

Gotta pay if you wanna play.

 

Waaa?

What happen man!? Did it screw up the rest of the valvetrain? God I hope not.

 

Looks like Keving wont be heading to the drag strip anytime soon huh.

 

ha you wanted to sell me these cams

 

man it ran for like 10 min and then snapped....
anyways, i dunno if the valvetrain is ok or not. I gotta check that out. But first i gotta get me another cam!!

 

Damn Matthel, sorry to hear that. If the shop that put together your motor also supplied the cams, you better get a new one for free. Then again, you should get a new one for free from wherever you got it...bad grind...

 

im gonna tlak to the shop tomorrow and see wassup. I dont relly want to tow the car there nor do i want to pull the motor out again. And replacing the cam is ALOT of work....

 

SUX SUX SUX BROKEN CAM BROKEN CAM GODDAMMIT ALL THAT F'IN WORK
DOWN THE FREAKIN DRAIN!!!!!!!!!
its all good, at least we know its not the rod
hopefully we dont gotta take the freakin engine out

 

what if we do? you down to help me out? free food man!! hahahahahh

i think we can get the motor out alot faster this time cause we dont have to do a trans swap and the exhaust manifolds, fuel rails, etc can stay on the motor...

 

so does anyone know if i have to remove the whole timing chain to pull the cam out or can i remove the small chain that drives both cams...this is for the rear exhaust cam...thanks

 

I got engine schematics if you need them.

 

I can look in my service manual tonight if you like Matthel. Let me know if you don't get an answer....

lrdrandall@yahoo.com

 

Well that sucks but hey. (Its the price you pay to be cool) but anyway Turbo one day I will have the ***** to takemy civic motor out and build it. Good luck man.

 

Hey Mathew. I think it might be less trouble just to change the cams w/ the engine in the car. But it the work might be alot easier if you take the hood off though. To get the car running, maybe just use the stock cams again. But check to make sure you didn't damage any of the valvetrain. If the cams broke when the car was actually running, I would be pretty though w/ the inspection.

 

mathew... hmm...
sorry jeff, just makes me laugh
cuz matt boy hates it when people get his name wrong
right, maTTel?

 

hhaha...my motorcycle class teacher kept callin me Mattel today.....stupid lady

thanks for the offers guys. I could and do appreciate any help anyone can offer. THe more the better. Im not sure if i want to pull the motor out or not cause im afriad if i have probs again they might try to blame me.

 

hope everything goes well

 

after phil and i spoke to don, we both agree that it is impossible to to any engine work without removing the engine. oh, phil's never had his out of the car either

 

its not impossible, it just can't be done.. plain and simple good luck toyz r us with getting it fixed though.. im sure u want to be able to beat a automagic wanna be booster like chaching

 

What are you guys talking about? If VTCs can be done w/ the engine in, so could cam replacements.

 

don't look at me.. ask don.. he's the one who said it couldn't be done

 

jeff jeff jeff.. they are being sarcastic because Don told phil that his internals wern't upgraded because the engine never left the car.. and you can't do any work like that without taking out the engine

 

well everyone knows that phil's engine hasn't been out of his car! look how dirty it is. now my engine is spottless! i take it out at least once a month.

 

Hasn't this been beat to death enough already...?

 

phil made me do it!!!!!!!!

 

NostroDONous said so

 

Can't we all just get along?????

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