So this year has been very trying for the corvette. Brief 400 sbc engine history in the last year:

Engine 1: Fresh rebuild by PED in washington. Lasted 8,000 miles before the lifters/cam comp XE274H wore themselves flat on 4 exhaust lobes. Ran a 13.0 at 109 with street tires. 2.1 60 foot.

Engine 1.5: Replaced cam/lifters and found that I had no oil pressure at idle. lasted 150 miles.

Engine 2: Rebuilt engine myself using roller cam and AFR 195 heads. New bearings/rings. Ran great until the aircleaner stud jam nut worked loose from the bottom of the stud and fell into the carb. Ended up in cylinder 7. The nut. The piston. TRW Hypereutectic. Bent/compressed rod. Cracked block, damaged heads. I was driving along and it started missing, like it was running on 1/2 the cylinders. Naturally I gave it more gas to keep it running. Then it smoothed out and I pulled to a stop. Idled for 5 seconds and bam, it made a clank and the engine stopped dead.

Engine 3: New bearings/rings/block/piston/rod. Rebuilt engine myself again. Locktighted aircleaner stud. No jam nut. :p: 700 miles so far and running strong! :cheers: Engine as it stands.

Needless to say I'm getting pretty good at putting engines together and removing/reinstalling them.

I bought a stealthram fuel injection kit and I should have it this week. I'll post pictures when I get it.

 

Man I feel for you. That has really got to hurt your wallet. I hope you get it right this time.
Mike :auto:

 

Hey, I know what the problem was! One too many beers! You have photographic proof.
Gary ;)

 

yes deifinitely let us know how the stealth ram intake works out.

 

Sounds very familiar.

On engine 1.5, did you ever know why you had no oil pressure at idle?

 

You're a patient man. Hope the Stealthram works out for you.

 

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :cheers:

 

School of hard knocks... :yesnod:

 

makes me want to go right out in the garage and check my nuts :eek:
good luck with # 3 :smash:

 

What luck man. I hope everything works out for you this time around. Keep us updated on the stealthram installation.

Mark

 

Thanks guys. I'm incredibly stoked about the stealthram setup. It should get here tomorrow. I'm going to take pictures of everything the kit comes with. Hope it will all fit under my hood too.

Surfer69: Engine 1.5 wore tons of metal shavings from the lifters/lobes and made the oil into a metallic soup. The oil filter got full and started bypassing the metal chunks right into the bearings. Nearly all the bearings were incredibly worn through the outer layers. The oil was leaking out of the loose clearances and not building pressure.