my intention were to pull the engine around christmans but this might speed it up ill tell you all what exactly happened. about a week ago l was hearing a wierd noise around 1500-1000rpm coming down sounded like my lifters or something and i didnt pay great deal of attention to it. well wednesday night me and a friend were going to pearl on h-3 i was between the two tunnels probably about 2000 rpm or so just cruisin up the hill and in a bang i heard what sounded like backfiring and the engine i thought seized, and the most horrific smell ever smelt like burnt plastic or something i dont know how to describe that smell unless your a flyer like me, it smelt just like avionics smokin up so i for sure thought something was on fire.but when i checked there wasnt. so after all of that i started with the basics vacuum lines,spark plugs,fuses,ecm, error codes intake, and looked around no spilt fluid. so then i tried to roll it over and it was turning great but no ignition. tried it again then it started ran a little then it made a sound like the rockers i was talking about earlier except 10 times louder. then i called the wrecker. after 2 days of thought ive narrowed it down to a few things: cam(highly unlikely now that i think of it),timing chain,timing gear?(dont remember the name),or maybe some type of bearings. that is the best i could do for a description. however i still have the fire in my pocket and im thinking of rebuilding it with like the perfomance rebuild kit from postons with the forged pistons possibly stroking it out 30 over gn110t cam,champion gn1 heads,and maybe a new block to start it out right, you know the goods. so theres the skinny on things.