Thread: My new daily driver...

Another bump.

The LS2 bottom end shit the bed. The dealer tried to tell me it was low on oil, which it wasn't, just to push me out of warranty. When i took it to another dealer, the place put me down as negligence in the GM records and since I don't have official oil logs (change it myself), I'm fucked.

It had a lifter tap for a couple months, and I just figured I'd ride it out until I did a cam swap this winter. Well one lucky day a few weeks ago (Friday afternoon actually), I left work and I lost a lot of power and the motor sounded like a washing machine. I'm not 100% sure what let go, if it dropped a valve or broke a rod or what. All I know is it's going to be a fortune to fix.

So, the TBSS is at a local speed shop (the same place who did my exhaust work). Since I have no lift, I'm not attempting to do this myself. The labor won't be much, either. The motor is getting pulled and shipped out to a machine shop known having some amazing, record-breaking shop cars. Assuming the block and crank are okay, they will clean up the bottom end, bore it maybe 0.010" and balance/blueprint it. I am going with forged rods and pistons, as well. The heads will get cleaned up a little with a 3 or 5 angle valve job and new, beefier valvetrain. I'm unsure what cam to go with yet, possibly a custom grind. It's getting a 3000-3200 stall, tune, and some other stuff like a Jetttstream CAI, external trans cooler, and Badlandz electric cutout.

I'm not worried about LT's and a Y pipe, since they are over a grand and only come in stainless. Screw that. With the forged pistons I can throw on a little spray down the road if I want to. This should be plenty of power for now, regardless. The stock LS manifolds flow pretty damn good for what they are.

So, yeah. I'm hoping for the arrival of this thing in about a month (Thanksgiving-ish). I'll be sure to post a new vid then.



On a sidenote, I just got my ported and polished heads back for my Trans Am so that's just about ready to go back together. My Iroc is torn down for a tranny swap. Just need hardware and that'll be just about done. I love being single with a disposable income!

Originally Posted by Harner

Another bump.

The LS2 bottom end shit the bed. The dealer tried to tell me it was low on oil, which it wasn't, just to push me out of warranty. When i took it to another dealer, the place put me down as negligence in the GM records and since I don't have official oil logs (change it myself), I'm fucked.

It had a lifter tap for a couple months, and I just figured I'd ride it out until I did a cam swap this winter. Well one lucky day a few weeks ago (Friday afternoon actually), I left work and I lost a lot of power and the motor sounded like a washing machine. I'm not 100% sure what let go, if it dropped a valve or broke a rod or what. All I know is it's going to be a fortune to fix.

So, the TBSS is at a local speed shop (the same place who did my exhaust work). Since I have no lift, I'm not attempting to do this myself. The labor won't be much, either. The motor is getting pulled and shipped out to a machine shop known having some amazing, record-breaking shop cars. Assuming the block and crank are okay, they will clean up the bottom end, bore it maybe 0.010" and balance/blueprint it. I am going with forged rods and pistons, as well. The heads will get cleaned up a little with a 3 or 5 angle valve job and new, beefier valvetrain. I'm unsure what cam to go with yet, possibly a custom grind. It's getting a 3000-3200 stall, tune, and some other stuff like a Jetttstream CAI, external trans cooler, and Badlandz electric cutout.

I'm not worried about LT's and a Y pipe, since they are over a grand and only come in stainless. Screw that. With the forged pistons I can throw on a little spray down the road if I want to. This should be plenty of power for now, regardless. The stock LS manifolds flow pretty damn good for what they are.

So, yeah. I'm hoping for the arrival of this thing in about a month (Thanksgiving-ish). I'll be sure to post a new vid then.



On a sidenote, I just got my ported and polished heads back for my Trans Am so that's just about ready to go back together. My Iroc is torn down for a tranny swap. Just need hardware and that'll be just about done. I love being single with a disposable income!

Gotta love the mentality of the dealer. I don't know what your local dealer does, but the Cadillac dealership I used to work at only did engine swaps so far as I know; no major internal work was done. Even if the dealer wasn't trying to sell you a new engine, they were trying to do everything they could to avoid warranty service.

I change my own oil and do my own maintenance as well and wonder what exactly would happen if I ever needed to show records. I keep the log in the owner's manual and am still a GM trained technician despite the fact that over ten years have passed since I worked at the dealership. I pulled my training records a few months ago, and amazingly they showed credits I received as late as December 2009. I guess those were annual training requirements that were automatically updated or something. It's a Catch-22, though. Save money and ensure the job is done right and you are punished. Take it to the dealer, pay twice as much and have some half trained nitwit do the job and you are covered.