Trance's all motor disaster
 

Hey guy's I remember seeing this happen to 1 other person on here. I think it was Spoon or Spencer, one of those Canadians ;) But anyway I was siting in traffic idling and all of a sudden my idle dropped down and I heard parts falling on the road and then the engine died.
I popped the hood and what did I find?
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Son of a bitch, am I missing something? Oh here it is, the end of the Zex/Compcams camshaft broke off!!!
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Looks like it'll be resting again until I can find the parts to fix it. What the hell causes this? Poor casting? Imporper tourque? I drove it all summer long and was preparing to drive it this winter too until now...

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either the cam just broke or it siezed up from lack of oil pressure :-X

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The problem is all-motor :P

j/k, but I'm sure a bad casting could cause that. Never heard of it happening but anything's possible.

I can't see improper torque causing that. Too loose you might just have the bolt back off and your gear will completely come off the cam. Too tight.... can't think of anything bad that would happen from that other than maybe snapping the bolt when you are tightening or having it be a bitch and a half to take off.

How are your valves?

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how did that itb d series pull

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I don't know I havn't been able to rip into it yet. I'm actually afraid to!!! Hope I didn't do any other damage. Like I said I was just sitting there idling... The cam gear is now messed up too so it looks like I'm going back to stock parts for a little while.
Oh yeah and the ITB's ripped pretty good in the top end on this little SOHC. I swapped back to the standard Honda intake manifold for the winter but there were definately noticable differences. With the ITB's my low end suffered but the midrange and top end was breathing heavy!!!

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I could possibly see over tightening causing that, but damn. :o That just shouldn't happen. :S



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Re: Trance's all motor disaster
 

Yeah I thought maybe if I over tightened it it caused it to form stress cracks or something. It's just odd it didn't break before now, I've driven it for a good 5 months.

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that reminds me of the time i was sitting at a light driving jake's old civic when i saw the crank pully roll out from under the car and roll across the street...

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not the first time ive seen a zex cam break on that end, call em and bitch.

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yeah. tell thoes ----------ers you paid like 4500 to have a motor built you had it for a month or so and the cam broke tottaly destroying your motor >:D see what they do about it. sounds like the NE crew is having some bad luck lateley.