79fairmont

Gonna do anything to beef up the engine? Maybe replace those tensioners before they go out on the new one?

PaRaDoX

i reckon the tensioner developed stress cracks due to excessive heat, becuase of the keying issue the engine got soo hot that the manifolds were glowing, now im talking about N/A manifolds, i also was running heavy duty valve springs so that can put a bit more strain on the timing system, either way the heat did it, because i found stress cracks all through the heads

this motors got some history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnpnjaYNsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCByCFFgy2Q


its been super charged, turbo charged , dragged, drifted done way too many burnouts and only pinged once badly in its life, now its going to get turbo charged again
this engine has run countless 13 second passes...

either way the engines still in good shape to run a few more passes