Well, as some of you know, i had decided to redo my headgasket since it was starting to leak. Has the had resurfaced, valve grind, and new stem seals installed. Put the head back on, and got stuck trying to get my timing set right. Best I could do was around half tooth off on the cam gears. I'm assuming there was too much material taken off the head and made the timing off just slightly..Car ran decent, but idle was rough..redid the timing belt again, this time with the exhaust advanced, and intake retarded half tooth(it was either that or vise versa). Car idled much better, not perfect, but much better. But before, i noticed that cylinder 4 was not fired right. It had fuel, spark, and compression, but my EGT was on that cylinder, and it was at like 400 degrees..pulled the wire on taht cylinder, and didnt change the running of the motor..then redid the timing one more time,and it ran good for the most part, had 18.5 hg's of vac, but still didnt seem right. Took the car out on the highway a bit, boosted it, seemed ok. Then on the way back, turning onto my street, the motor started running like crap, and then all of a sudden made this clangging sound, and got severe within a few seconds, and then nothing..motor dead. I knew what happened.

I then pulled the head AGAIN, and found this disturbing evidence of what happened. From what i can tell, none of the 3 cylinder except #4 had piston hitting any valves. It looks like somehow, my 2 exhaust valves came loose, and smacked the piston. How they came loose i dont know, but the machine shop that did the head worked on the exhaust side..the head is fucked, and that cylinder has small gouges in it,and obviously, the piston top is completely FUCKED. Well, there goes my car being at the shootout this year..And to top it all off, my dad calls me today, and told me my Grandmother died this afternoon..yes, life sucks for XtremeRS today I now have to figure out what i'm exactly going to do. A lot of hard work and money went down the drain today..Here is the damage..

13.5 @108 MPH-2.2 60ft(stupid FWD!)
S16G @ 18 PSI/FMIC/Running on MegaSquirt II (Now with sequential
fuel injection)
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-1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse RS-T- "Toy"
-1992 Plymouth Laser Turbo AWD(SOLD)
-2000 Honda CR-V(daily)