$$ Spun Rod Bearing In Fully Built Rb30 :(

[ezy_09s]

Wow..some seriously bad luck your having there..& it looks like your using quality parts & certainly not skimping in the $$ department and you seem to know your way around an engine.

So I really hope you get to the bottom of the cause for all these premature engine failures.

Nice 240z you have too.

[GTRPSI]

Where did you get the stud from?

When the relocation hole was drilled was it 100% square to the block?

Ive seen these drilled out by hand, not square to the block and the stud goes on at a little bit of a angle, this could stress it.

[ZT-R]

Thats the idler not the tensioner. Its a RIPS block so Im sure he would have all that right. (this build isn't assembled by him but the block is the same one he built for me on the prior build)

Edited April 15, 2014 by ZT-R

[GTRPSI]

Low grade bolt most likely then.

So sorry to hear about the misfortune.....