R.I.P Engine

[Crana]

Doing about 40mph(ish) the other day and got a nasty sound from the bay





RIP

In another note anyone ever fitted a none twinport engine in a twinport? my engine code is z10xep and I have a x10xe sitting doing nothing but head look totally different

[scooby-KILLER]

that just randomly fail?

[Crana]

aye 60k on engine bought it off old bloke was always a good engine done 10k in her wasn't kicking its head in was just driving normal

[scooby-KILLER]

was it serviced regularly oils etc?, any work done on it recently?

[Tathan]

Oooh, a 9v conversion! Nice

[Melv]

9v

[Astraliam]

That's a strange one !! Have you checked bolts are done up ect or head bolts as snapped in middle of cam ?

[CorsaTurbo2008]

can use the other engine providing u use inlet and exhaust manifold off old engine and sensors, done it before.

[Violet]

Looks like just failure of the camshaft due to a bad batch of rough casting maybe?

[Tathan]

Yeah get decent pic of broken faces and we'll apply our knowledges!

[Jasovanooo]

isnt this pretty common on the twinport engines circa 05-06

[Dom]

This rings a bell - can't remember if it was the 1.0 or 1.2 but certainly heard of camshafts snapping on a few occasions.

[Frisco]

Yeah, they recalled astras for it IIRC. Its the caps not being torqued down properly

[scooby-KILLER]

i dont suppose OP could have some sort of compensation if it is a common fault?, i did think that cam cap might have been incorrectly torqued but didnt want to say as i wasnt sure

[Jasovanooo]

vauxhall did compensate some iirc but it was pot luck / agro