Broken rocker or something worse?

[pyite20v]

How badly did I break my engine?

Was passing a car on the highway, took it a little into the redline but not much farther, and then started "clicking" or "tapping" a little under throttle. I thought it was maybe a broken exhaust flange or something as the car was still driving fine. After a few exits the sound got worse and by the time I pulled over it had a pretty bad knocking sound at idle. No smoke or oil, and the car still drive but was underpowered.
I know it could be a lot of things and this is a fairly pointless thread, but being that it's a holiday and I cannot get the car into a shop to find out how bad it actually is, I'm hoping some people can give me some hope that I didn't bend my valves and have to rebuild or replace this engine for the 2nd time
3.0 euro SC engine with the big ports but lower compression.

[pete3799]

Doesn't cost anything to jack it up, pull the valve covers, and take a peek at the rockers.

[pyite20v]

Would love to do that but I'm 3 hours from my garage and the car is sitting in a random persons driveway until I can get a tow truck tomorrow.

[Trackrash]

Those motors are known to have valve spring failures and broken head studs.

Good idea parking it until you or your mechanic can determine the cause.

Good luck.

[DRACO A5OG]

Hopefully this is all that happened


Any obvious new oil leaks?

Did it sound like this?


This is what I found when I opened my lower valve cover

Good excuse for me to upgrade my 3.2 to 964 Cams, in progress

[T77911S]

that's what I thought of.
I had a shaft come out. exhaust is worse than intake.
seems like it is always the exhaust though.
it is VERY loud