Bent Push Rod and Damaged Lifter... planning my next move

[HyperV117]

Hi everyone,

My car has 122k miles. It's a 2010 automatic. Last weekend I took it to the track and it finally had a real problem. I was at higher RPM getting ready to make an overtake when I lost power and heard something nasty in the engine bay. Anyways took apart yesterday and found a bent push rod and a damaged lifter.

I'm assuming at this point the best option is to just get a DOD and VVT delete kit if I'm installing it myself. I might have the heads taken to a shop to get cleaned up but otherwise I might just do this myself. What do you guys think? I see a lot of people recommended to keep VVT. Is it easer to keep than to remove it?

[morepowerjoe]

I'd recommend keeping vvt if that is all your going to do to it because it will give you a broader torque curve right in the rpm you drive in. It makes it a lot more fun to drive.

[morepowerjoe]

As for as easier to keep it or not it's up to you. Either way you will want to change your valley cover to a non afm/dod cover any way and if you go without vvt you'll have to change your timing cover to a non vvt cover also. As far as the tuning goes, it's a lot simpler for the tuner to tune a non vvt than a vvt engine (for the ones that don't know what their doing). Not to steer you away from TSP or anything but GPI has the same kit but can include email tuning which is way easier to keep vvt.