Broken Manley Intake Valve

[ChevyKiller]

True but I would trust Mike at livernois to salvage whatever could be salvaged from it and send them to him.

He will give honest feedback as to what he can do with it.

 

[MexGT]

YEah im just wondering and trying to figure out how expensive it would be to repair it if possible, if its very expensive and it wont be as good as the other head or as it should be ... ill just buy 1 drivers side core and send it to port.

 

[05stroker]

Are the Manley valves marked Manley or how can you tell what valves you have if dont know what was put in a car?

 

[RRRoamer]

That's the nice thing about aluminum: you can fix just about anything, including this damage. The REAL question is this: is the damage severe enough that a NEW head would be cheaper than a repair???

 

[MexGT]

Are the Manley valves marked Manley or how can you tell what valves you have if dont know what was put in a car?

uhmmmm what do you mean ? I bought everything as for the valvetrain, had the Manley boxes, sent the valvetrain to a known shop here in my town, he gave me back what he replaced in the heads.

 

[05stroker]

uhmmmm what do you mean ? I bought everything as for the valvetrain, had the Manley boxes, sent the valvetrain to a known shop here in my town, he gave me back what he replaced in the heads.

I was reffering to anybodys head and valves. Are the valves thereselfs marked as Manley.

 

[MexGT]

oh

nope, no visible marks

 

[05stroker]

Thanks.

 

[MexGT]

Np ... i´ll just stay away of Manley products.

 

[ZmanM3]

Those pics were painful to look at.

 

[MexGT]

Well I phoned this guy at Manley because I never recieved the email I was supposed to recieve long time ago.

So basically he told me around 100000 possible reasons why the valve broke and none of them has to do with the valve itself.
1.- Bad seat angle
2.- Bad alignment
3.- Spring misspreasure
4.- Not a good guide
5.- blah blah blah blah

so anyway, I never expected to get anything replaced from them because we all know how this type of issues end when theres a big company involved. (most of the time...)

He even asked me if I wanted back the valves I sent them to check but I should be paying for shipping ...

I´m done with Manley stuff, and anyone planing in buying stuff from them, all I have to say is good luck.

 

[don_w]

Well I phoned this guy at Manley because I never recieved the email I was supposed to recieve long time ago.

So basically he told me around 100000 possible reasons why the valve broke and none of them has to do with the valve itself.
1.- Bad seat angle
2.- Bad alignment
3.- Spring misspreasure
4.- Not a good guide
5.- blah blah blah blah

so anyway, I never expected to get anything replaced from them because we all know how this type of issues end when theres a big company involved. (most of the time...)

He even asked me if I wanted back the valves I sent them to check but I should be paying for shipping ...

I´m done with Manley stuff, and anyone planing in buying stuff from them, all I have to say is good luck.

Well, that sucks... but not totally unexpected.

Are they associated with Dynatech/AFCO/A-Fab by any chance?

 

[US-1]

Nope.

 

[Freaknazty]

that fuckin bites man

 

[don_w]

Nope.

Then they must have attended the same "fuck-em-all" business class.

 

[ZmanM3]

That sucks.

 

[MexGT]

they suck.

 

[05stroker]

they suck.

I think we will se some FUCK MANLEY posts from Mex in the future!

 

[lostsoul]

I think we will se some FUCK MANLEY posts from Mex in the future!

MMR uses Manely too.....



FUCK MMR!!!!! With their 70K over bore!!

 

[Born To Run]

Manley

Well I phoned this guy at Manley because I never recieved the email I was supposed to recieve long time ago.

So basically he told me around 100000 possible reasons why the valve broke and none of them has to do with the valve itself.
1.- Bad seat angle
2.- Bad alignment
3.- Spring misspreasure
4.- Not a good guide
5.- blah blah blah blah

so anyway, I never expected to get anything replaced from them because we all know how this type of issues end when theres a big company involved. (most of the time...)

He even asked me if I wanted back the valves I sent them to check but I should be paying for shipping ...

I´m done with Manley stuff, and anyone planing in buying stuff from them, all I have to say is good luck.

I am sorry to see your loss,but thats drag racing,shit happens & there is no warranty on any performance parts,especially purpose built engines for racing.Do i agree with it ,no,but that is fact.
If someone offers a warranty on there parts for a purpose built engine,i would run like hell,as you have been told 10000 reasons why it might have failed,putting the blame on others,ie politicians,insurance companys,lawyers,etc.
I once had a boiler leak internally causing $3000.00 in damage to the unit,the manufacture said yeah our gasket failed,here's your $2.00 red rubber gasket,the other parts that got wet are not our problem!
You can speculate as to why it came apart(your motor) but thats drag racing,shit happens,just like the waiver we sign when we enter the track,not responceble for damage or injury.Once you accept the fact,there is no warrany on purpose built engines for racing your healing will begin.
Can anyone tell me where they had a engine built for racing & windowed the block @ 6900rpm & had the parts or labor or both completed under warranty??????