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Nah haven't pulled the head off but while I was pulling the balancer I got an idea of the extent of the valve damage. There is still a bit of compression there so I expect most of the valves to be bent but not too much. I was decelerating when it let go and had it switched it off and into into neutral quick, so there should be minimal piston coating and valve seat damage. HP Junkie oil pump body is intact but cosmetically damaged. Atomic crank sprocket is toast, exhaust cam gear has a couple of chips on it but can still work, custom machined Atomic timing guide is fine, the alloy fixed guide is snapped at the base. I'll have to go through the oil pump to check nothing went through it and fingers crossed it's fine there. Bottom end, head and turbo etc will be fine, the filter would have picked up anything that went through the pump and the turbo has an extra filter. On the subject of the Atomic tensioner, there are wear marks on a couple of the teeth on the plunger, the spring lock has definitely been jumping over the teeth. Without the posi stop setup it would have failed much earlier. There is also significant marking on the inside of the timing cover where the M4? bolt has been backing out of the tensioner. There's only so much you can do with hardware that small. I have more to say on the matter but that'll do for now

If you do any sort of high speed driving you want better brakes. They look pretty vari good.

Nothing like a nearly 40 degree day to do some tuning but it is what it is. I put the car back on e85 today and after a bit of frigging around with fuelling and adjusting the preload with a crowbar, I got the comparison below. After doing some lower boost pulls I put the wgdc map at 100% with a desired boost of 30psi to make sure it was 100% the whole run. I was running into fuel pump issues with the intank 525 dropping from 58psi on the reg to 50psi for the run. It was supposed to ramp up to nearly 85psi so there's something to fix/upgrade another day. The plazmaman intercooler was doing a stand up job with iat's being about 12 to 15c above ambient through the run and 20 over at idle. Chucked some water on it and the iat's were 7c over ambient! The garrett turbo on the previous run wasn't at full send either so there could be plenty more mid range to be had there. GREEN - GTX G2 3582 1.06 38mm P&F T3 11.8 psi actuator RED - Pulsar GTX3584RS 1.06 40mm P&F T3 15psi actuator