06-15-2011, 01:51 PM | #1 |
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My Camaro went home to Oshawa to die......
I drove up to Oshawa for the Camaro homecoming from Chicago last week.
Got there safe and sound Thursday night, and Friday morning took the car down for a quick wash before hitting the show......a block away from the hotel, the car suffered " catastrophic engine failure " leaving a light and shifting from 1st into second. Pretty ironic to die blocks from where it was born. Luckily, Kelly & Veteran 1 saved me by getting my car back home on his trailer. Where it goes from here....I'm not sure...GM will try and blame the cam/tune, but the car has run flawlessly for over a year...some pretty serious carnage for an 8900 mile LS3. Some pics of the damage, and it's place of death and it's memorial. |
06-15-2011, 01:54 PM | #2 |
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Sorry to hear this
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06-15-2011, 01:54 PM | #3 |
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wow.. i feel your pain.
I had a cam/tune on mine.. yours went through the pan, mine went through the block, you might be able to reuse your block.. i had to get a new motor.. lsx376. but you might have seen my posts on here about that. i'm sorry. it's sad to see things blow up.. when you take the top apart, look for a failed lifter like mine..caused the valve to hit the piston and go kaboom. |
06-15-2011, 01:54 PM | #4 |
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Just had a cam and a tune??
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06-15-2011, 01:56 PM | #5 |
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not that anyone particularily is to blame but who tuned your car and whose cam was it?
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06-15-2011, 01:56 PM | #6 |
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i'll also chime in.. GM won't help at all.. i had the ls9 cam.. a SMALL GM cam..
but if you need and advice, have questions or anything. ask. i'll be willing to throw my knowledge out |
06-15-2011, 01:59 PM | #7 |
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that sucks gm should at least pay for half!
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06-15-2011, 02:00 PM | #8 | ||
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Thanks
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Headers, CAI and an axle back. Quote:
I'll take all the advice/help I can get at this point. |
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06-15-2011, 02:00 PM | #9 |
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06-15-2011, 02:03 PM | #10 |
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More and more sad stories about tuned Camaros.
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06-15-2011, 02:06 PM | #11 |
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Mac told me about this, and I'll tell you what I told him. This sucks and I hate to hear that this happened to you bud.
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06-15-2011, 02:08 PM | #12 |
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All these modded Camaro dying. Maybe these engines were not designed to be modded at all. I mean, every other day, we are hearing about these modded Comaros dying. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against modding, I don't do it personally myself, it is just an observation.
Just wonder, anyone have same thing happen to themselves in an UNMODDED Camaro? Good luck with fixing it, hope you are on the road soon. |
06-15-2011, 02:08 PM | #13 |
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I wish I could tell you that someone's gonna pay for it but I can't. My advice is to take everything off that you can reuse and call CC performance or PM him on here and talk about buying an engine from them..you can get a shortblock forged from them at a fair price ( i think less tha than 6K or the long block if all the rest of your stuff is ok for not much more. Good luck!!
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06-15-2011, 02:08 PM | #14 |
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http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...ghlight=lsx376
There is my lsx376 swap thread http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...light=bit+dust There is my engine failure thread, with lots o pics. |
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