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Finished dialing in the tune for E20 and was just cruising home all normal like, literally just doing 60kph. I had the knock ears on cos I was using them, I heard a noise and that was it. There is a stretched link on half of the timing chain and it snapped, at this stage I think I had it too tight. The irony is that I had the rocker cover off to helicoil the cam caps, I checked everything and it all looked ok...well I didn't rotate the engine to check the chain but why would I? Anyhow the chain came out in one piece and wasn't bound up in the bottom end so might have saved the oil pump. The cams still spin freely, the bottom end spins freely and didn't lose oil pressure when it broke. The damage isn't as bad as last time and although both times had a snapped chain, the reasons are different. Best case is a set of new valves, head gasket and a new timing chain. Anyfarkenway there's that, I'll pull it down when I have half a chance of affording to fix it.