The rear main in not that worried about, its the tick coming from the engine head that has the most concerned.

 

keep going ... you'll get through both issues!

 

car is heading back to the shop tomorrow morning...

 

Wait so what actually happened?

Blown head gasket?

 

Quick rundown on problems.

Milky oil cap...I'm letting moisture into my valve covers by not having my PVC system capped off. I had it venting to atmosphere to relieve the excess crank case pressure when I had my blower. And now that I'm N/A and living in Florida where it's 95% humidity most of the time it's letting moisture in. Once I hooked up the PVC system it smoked really really badly, I have a eBay catch can I just need to figure out where to mount it.

No idea if hooking up my PVC system would have messed up my rear main or what not but it didn't start pssing oil until after I hooked back up my PVC system...

Still no idea what or why there is a tick in the heads, but it's causing my knock sensor to go crazy. It's picking up >500 when just cruising around at 10-15% throttle up to 3k to me.

So it's very possible I caused the rear main to go out but I don't see how my cars vacuum pressure causes a rear main to let go...FML

 

document everything and talk to the shop ... it wouldnt surprise me if they missed the intake timing gear by a tooth ...

 

Dam that's sucks man. Hopefully you get it figured.

All I read above was coolant and oil, then people saying the build shop is to blame. So I just assumed head gasket.

 

Car is at the shop, the look on the owners wife face when i told her that this is the engine they built and it only had about 20 miles on it....

 

I agree. This is what I did with the shop that did my build.

Conway, I hope they bite the cost honestly, if it's nothing you did, it's their responsibility imo, and I would let them know how much of an inconvenience the whole ordeal is. If they won't work with you, I believe there is a Shop Review thread here where you can post your opinion/warning etc.

Anyways, I hope they fix it correctly for you. You've suffered enough how long this build it taking. Keep the faith.

 

/\/\ yeah man......I rem when you started the build how much progress you made. I was impressed with how quickly you made it. I'm hoping for a decently-happy ending.

 

we all want a happy ending for you!





what??

 

lol......no jokes till he gets his damn car running.

besides you forgot the "hyphen" and "decently" which kept it outta the gutter.

 

So i heard back from the shop, this is what they said:

"The guys were able to take a look at your car yesterday. Here is what they found:
Driver side cam solenoid leaking and needs replaced
both valve covers leaking and need replaced
leaking slightly at rear corners
rear main seal possibly leaking-he said there was too much there and too wet to be able to tell for certain but it looks like it.
check engine light on
looking at like 10-11 hours to fix everything plus parts."


After talking with them the rear main and valve cover gaskets were reused from when i dropped the motor off. And its the actual VVT solenoid that needs replaced not the O-ring. I have another VVt Solenoid so that will save me a few hundred.

As for the Check engine light thats from my MAF not working correctly its now showing air across it but is still giving me AITs so im not worried about it since im using a MAP sensor. Also its calling forward O2 sensors but they arn't hooked up.

I'm still waiting to hear if they was able to diagnose the tick in the head, but i doubt it since it has a bad rear main.

 

Car is at the mechanics, gave them the go ahead to fix it. They wasn't able to listen for the tick so maybe once they get it put together they'll be able to find it.

 

Are you financially responsible for these repairs? Are they cutting you a break on price?

 

I'm getting a deal on the mx for the repairs they are doing now. Since that just happens and I can't prove negligence on there part.

When they start to look for the tick in the head I'm telling them I'm not paying those repairs since that is 100% on them.

 

So my car is up on the lift hopefully I'll hear back from the shop in the next day or so.

 

What's the name of the shop?

 

The name of the shop is Emerald Coast Motorsports, but please guys/gals don't go to there Facebook and blow then up. If the results go bad I'll post up but give them a chance to rectify the current situation.

 

If they're talking to you and working with you / didnt stone-wall you than they're cool in my book ...

I hope it all works out and you can get things where they need to be!