Yea I bled all 16 lifters, lapped the valves took the head to a shop to get resurfaced and cleaned the block with a razor blade

I would never re use a bent valve

Lol, I was imagining a valve laying on a bench and a hammer somehow involved.....
I never know about some people so I just had to ask. These cars have seen a lot before most of got them.

Here are some pics of the timing as is before disassembly. Bare in mind the head is probably one of the thinnest ones I've ever run. I wanna say it's at 5.170 so that's the slight difference in the cams. More pics later.

Bruh, man. Just . No clue how this happened. No piston contact, no obvious valve interference. I almost want to slap it back on and compression test it. Man I feel dumb right now.

What is that? Something fell in the engine?

BoostedTurtle said:

What is that? Something fell in the engine?

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Looks like a zip tie

Amazing. I doubt you could have gotten it out without pulling the head, but sucks to waste a head gasket for that. All in all, I'd call this fortunate. Go play the Powerball.

Ya, it is a zip tie that has one of those body panel tips on it for mounting flush for harness routing. The valve involved does not seem bent but it does visibly close after the valve right next to it that did not have this happen to it. It's strange, like within a few degrees of cam rotation the zip tie valve closes but the other definitely closes first. I still cant believe this happened. My car has been down for a while and I finally got it started only to have this happen. So demoralized. Anyways I have my backup head at the machinist already getting fixed up, I will have this one inspected and pressure tested in the next week or so hopefully. I will post all findings to this thread foe continuities sake. Moral of this story is make for damn sure you dont led FOD happen to you haha.