[sr71bb]

Originally Posted by Casper the friendly G

How many miles on this setup? What happened to the first engine?

Casper, the first engine GM replaced on their nickel because one of the valve springs broke and at the time there was a GM recall because there were some batches of them that they found to be defective from their supplier. So it dropped a valve and hit the piston causing catastrophic damage.

On the current LME 416 set up there are about 6000 miles on it (daily driving) and about 8 track days. This engine is pretty much bullet proof or so they say.

Had this NOT been a daily driver as well I probably would have done a dry sump on it as TED suggested earlier.

[JANNETTYRACING]

Originally Posted by sr71bb

Casper, the first engine GM replaced on their nickel because one of the valve springs broke and at the time there was a GM recall because there were some batches of them that they found to be defective from their supplier. So it dropped a valve and hit the piston causing catastrophic damage.

On the current LME 416 set up there are about 6000 miles on it (daily driving) and about 8 track days. This engine is pretty much bullet proof or so they say.

Had this NOT been a daily driver as well I probably would have done a dry sump on it as TED suggested earlier.

I can guarantee that if you have not addressed the lubrication issues the bullet proof engine will suffer the same failures.

Oil aeration is a huge problem at sustained High RPM, there are lots of articles on this very subject, it is the fate of many racing engines.

[GreenZLE]

Is there a dry sump solution for LT1's/LT4's for gen 6 Camaros?

[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by GreenZLE

Is there a dry sump solution for LT1's/LT4's for gen 6 Camaros?

I believe the C7 Grand Sport has an LT1 dry sump and the Z06 is the LT4 dry sump version of that engine, so perhaps those parts could be carried over, but that is a pretty big undertaking…

[opds9091]

I have a 19 2SS and had rods and pistons, ported stock heads, full cam package, MSD intake, CAI, 2" long tube with xpipe, NW 103mm TB, wet shot nitrous system (200 shot) and she handled it with no problems for 2 years with no problems, but with proper maintenance. I think she dynoed around 820rwhp. NOW, is the question at hand. I took off the nitrous and put in a Procharger F1A-94 with up 1 on the crank pulley, and a TH400. She dynoed at 1386rwhp.

[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by opds9091

I have a 19 2SS and had rods and pistons, ported stock heads, full cam package, MSD intake, CAI, 2" long tube with xpipe, NW 103mm TB, wet shot nitrous system (200 shot) and she handled it with no problems for 2 years with no problems, but with proper maintenance. I think she dynoed around 820rwhp. NOW, is the question at hand. I took off the nitrous and put in a Procharger F1A-94 with up 1 on the crank pulley, and a TH400. She dynoed at 1386rwhp.

If you put in rods & pistons then you did not have a stock bottom end (SBE) which was the point of this thread.