It happened to me as well! But it was great that it did because I found a 454 to put in my 92 Camaro then unfortunately someone stole it after I left it outside overnight. Heart breaking
You had a hydro lock. That code on the injector was a clue. It sat for a day before restarting it leaked fuel into the cylinder and hydro locked. I have a 6 liter with a hole in block from the same problem.
@@Brandon-LSX was just about ask what the final verdict was. Your cherry has been popped, this will end up being a good thing in the long run since you have vlogged this and gotten experience building the channel and a new engine.
If the fuel leaked in the day b4, it woulda washed by the rings and went in the pan. Does the oil smell like gas? I know that cylinder material cracks easy. Nakasil or whatever? Maybe there were cracks b4? Was the block magged? Is the rist pin seized in the rod? I always use a quality assembly lube. Something very sticky that wont wash off like EPL-4 from Elgin or the like. Raw deal man.
I can understand the feeling of having the block crack after all the work you put into the IROC. I like how you handle the stress with a time out relaxing on your deck. Two questions: what size are the tires with IROC rims and what brand are the IROC rims, thanks The brand is important because some IROC rims have thin spokes and I like the thick spokes as you had.
How do you figure? After digging into the carnage I found that I got scammed on ebay with the pistons. Learned my lesson on saving a buck with something as important as pistons.
@@Brandon-LSX Piston rods are directional. They ride on the crank a certain way. I'm pretty sure they weren't riding correctly. There's a reason they have notches on them. Can't blame the piston, it was too soon. Sometime we learn the hard way from bad information. I'm putting rods together as we speak. This mod game can be very tricky. I'm still making mistakes myself. But its so satisfying when we get it right....lol. We live we learn.
on a roller cam engine..don't take it over idle for the initial warm up. Because you had the throttle blade open..the pcm read that as time to dump some fuel. Idle only for about 15 minutes.
damn dood we just fired up the 70 camaro with the new engine and the damn ignition switch went bad. so now we got half the dash out and put the new switch in and lost one of the bolts which is small and specific lol. but your luck was much worse. sorry that happened. look forward to more videos and meeting up for a cruise this summer when we get my bird and the camaro out n about!
Ya sometimes things happen it's just part of hot rodding. I'm getting the new short block built hopefully in a couple weeks I can get it up and running.
@@Brandon-LSX i wish the camaro was mine its my pops. but we will definitely get together and go to some shows email me and ill give ya my contact info cbellad6 @ gmail
I’m so sorry to see your engine shit the bed, I also have a LS3 build on my 83 Camaro that I’m working on finishing! Best of luck with the rebuild, a junkyard core was a great idea! Can’t wait to see your build finished!
That's a sexy car, you gotta bring it to KC sometime and kick it. I've got a 89 TA I'm about to start vlogging with. lq9/80e simple build. I've got a chassis dyno I'll include in my vlog too
That would be awesome. Who knows might just make it out that way sometimes. I'm curious to see what hp its laying down to the wheels. I know its 500+ at crank.
sorry to see that! and i would feel the same way. i was going to suggest as the video is still playing to just get a good engine from the yard. good luck
I was definitely thinking about that. Unfortunately the 6.2L are around 2500 with core charge. Almost all of them have piston slap/ Oil pressure issues. Hopefully I can get it right this time. I only learn by doing.
Terrible, but you’ve got the foundation you just need an engine and it’ll be nice. What size wheels are those? I feel like you mentioned it before but I’m not sure where.
It was a fuel hydro lock that caused the damage. Fuel injector stuck wide open. If the head had a slight warp or crack it could also hydro lock a cyclinder but with coolant.
Damn that sucks im sorry to hear that ls3s are not cheap either! Side note im thinking about going with a l92 but im not trying to mess with that 58x reluctor wheel to keep it DBC lol so i might go ls2
