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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uncltrvlnmatt" data-source="post: 823560" data-attributes="member: 8290">Sucks nuggets. I had to do a head and cam on a G.M. 1.6 vortec industrial engine. The first problem is these crappy engines are extremely heat sensitive being a alluminum block and head. My customer cooked the engine pretty good and toasted the head gasket, had the oil comtaminated with coolant. Pulled it apart and sent the head out it came back o.k. only shaved it .004, not to bad but enough to kill the head gasket. It also had a bad cam. It started to come apart due to the oil conatamination. Ordered new cam and all related parts to do the job.Start to put the engine together and the first thing to piss me off was that the writing on the bottle of pre-lube was 100% Portuguese, or Spanish. Then the cam was bad. Thats right the brand new cam shipped to me had a chunk taken out of the #2 intake lobe from a bad casting. Soooooooo, I ordered a new one. That one also had a chunk taken out of the lobe, but this time it was on the #3 exhaust.I guess Brazil does not have quality control inspectors. I will never ever own another G.M. vehicle.</blockquote>