Thread: $12,500 of FAILURES... thanks Buschur, AWD and Big Valley Performance!

So last December I installed a Spec Twin Disc in my car and never would have thought the outcomes would be anything near this....

About a week after some friends and I finished the clutch there was this terrible sound coming from my tranny so I figured that Big Valley is the closest place to me that would be able to fix the car without any issues considering their record passes with their Evo ... boy was I wrong! After I got there they quickly had the tranny out and found out that the flywheel bolts were backing out. After we clutch was returned from spec and waiting on some new flywheel bolts the car was put back together a day before Christmas Eve. When I picked it up I was happy that the clutch was even smoother then when we installed the clutch and I was completely happy as I started to drive down to Miami. I was out with my brother in law driving around back by the everglades "spiritedly" and when I was going from fourth to fifth the RPMS jumped way high as they did I caught it but not in enough time. Needless to say there was a cotter pin that was not installed that holds the side to side shifter cable on the tranny... this allowed my cable to pop off and with my 8500 redline (about where I shifted) when that cable came off the input to the tranny it centered and put the car in third.... and bent every valve

So, on christmas eve I dropped the car off at AWD motorsports and thought I should be fine having them take care of the car and getting it built without issue while I was on the deployment that I left for a week later.

We got the motor off to Buschur for the full treatment and it came back with a ROOKIE mistake... but no one caught it. I was told that even David Buschur himself built the motor (which I doubt). Well the pistons where put in backwards! The motor made power for the dyno and when it was being driven for my Dad to pick it up (since I was still out on a deployment) it gave. Mike said that when they pulled off from a light it started to sputter and just died. So I get an email from my Dad and he told me what happened. AWD took the car back to their shop to figure out what happened.

Well with the over-sized valves being bigger and making a further extension towards the piston, and my 11mm lift cams, because the pistons were backwards the valve reliefs in the pistons didn't allow for any room and my motor started tearing itself apart....

Four weeks later I am waiting on Buschur Racing to get all the parts to AWD Motorsports! The biggest problem is the fact that I am transferring to Norfolk on Wednesday and AWD still does not have ANY gaskets to assemble my motor. So now I get to buy a plane ticket and a rental car for who knows how long because my motor is still in pieces... all I get from Buschur is "oh well." I can't believe that I have invested nearly $13,000 and still couldn't have a working motor in almost 6 months...: thumbdown

good god, so they are fixing it, but what a fucking mess.