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Something blew on my car, very bad. Need advice

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GSX-911

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Oct 27, 2010
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Car has 440 AWHP

Crower 272s, BC Springs/Retainers, 3G lifters.

I was beating the hell out of it like I always do.

When shifting to 4th a belt falls off, the water pump/alternator/crank belt.

This thing just starts misfiring like crazy with smoke coming out of exhaust. I barely can move it. It sounded like a STI Engine.

I took the sparktech coil on plug off and found 3 holes in my valve cover. Theres even a part of the valve train sticking through one.

So my question is, what do you guys think the damage is? By the way I turned the car off maybe 40 seconds later. I seen the temp gauge creeping up.

Attached is the photo of it.
 

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Take valve cover off and snap some more pictures. You probably threw a couple rocker arms and the cams hit them through the valve cover. Also check your timing to see if it jumped or maybe sheared some teeth off the belt.
 
Yup, hand crank that belt around. Most likely skipped timing and hit hard enough to shoot the lifters out of the top instead of shooting rods out the sides. Either way.... I'm surprised with that damage it ran for 40 seconds afterward
 
WOW!

How many RPM were you when the rocker came off?

Good chance of a couple bent valves.

Get the VC off, look for a broken spring.
 
Sounds pretty bad, you will know more when you take off the valve cover. If you slipped your timing, your gonna have to rebuild the motor or get a new short block. Check your valve, bet they're bent and probably going to be leaking now too.
 
Please dont rotate the motor at ALL, not even by hand, until you pull that valve cover off and get all the loose pieces out or more parts will be hurt. Its new head time for sure, but you need to try and find out what caused the failure. After the valve cover is off and you get the loose rockers out, you can try and turn the crank by hand to line up the timing marks to see if it jumped timing, which it probably did, but youll have to try and figure out if it jjumped time and caused the thrown rockers, or if the thrown rockers caused it to jump time.
 
I do agree with you kchaazz, if it were a less catastrophic failure. But really at this point I don't think it matters too much setting the timing to cheeck it now or with the cover off and "cleaned up". The whole heads going to need to be rebuilt, that's if its not already damaged enough to need to be replaced all together.

Any progress with this anyhow?
 
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