as promised.....the damage

**srt4eh** · 10-21-2005, 11:01 PM

One of these things is not like the other....

is that a hole??

wow - all sorts of goodies in the oil pan

i think the balance shaft assembly has seen better days

If you couldn't tell - the rod broke in half, so did the balance shaft chain, and the balance shaft assembly. the piston grazed the cylinder wall a little as well. I still am not sure what made it pop like this....all I know is that my "new" motor is ready to be dropped in so I can make one or two more appearances at oscars this year.

**Prince Valiant** · 10-21-2005, 11:34 PM

interesting carnage...any pics of the bearings surfaces and crankshaft?

**srt4eh** · 10-21-2005, 11:55 PM

not yet....sunday i'll get the rest of the block apart.

**Nix** · 10-22-2005, 01:20 AM

Iam sorry man but that is one of the nastiest pops that Ive seen in a long time, maybe the worst ever. I espically liked the oil pan shot, it seriously made me cringe when I looked at it.

Plus thats some black azz oil you had in there, it looks like choclate syrup.

**STEALTHZR2** · 10-22-2005, 07:32 AM

OMG!

Hope it turns out well for you when you are done. That oil pan made me look away.

**BAD LS1** · 10-22-2005, 07:51 AM

Intresting... bearing surfaces look ok, but is that some detonation erosion i see on the 2nd piston over from the left? Which appears to be the same cyl where the rod busted?

Its really a chicken or the egg thing here, which came first? To me, the one missing stud in the big end of the rod indicates the cap possiblly pulled apart from the rod, but typically the other stud would bend as it would just rip the cap off. But if that is for sure detonation erosion and its the same cyl that busted the rod then id have to say the rod fatiqued from knock. Tops of the pistions are pretty clean, looks like you may have got a few nitrous runs in? heheh but also it looks like it used a **** load of oil too by the carbon build up in the middle of the pistons which is deff burned oil!

Rods just dont bust in the middle unless they have some severe fatigue, major over speed is the big one that will bust em in the middle, or the cap ripped off and the rod got sent into the crank like a wood chipper and snapped it...

At any rate congrats on the quick turn around time!

**srt4eh** · 10-22-2005, 09:33 AM

the only rod that went was the first one from the right. I had gotten some nitrous runs in but not recently. I found the other stud in the target parking lot....

the crank looks like it took a beating....a lot of scratches and small pieces taken out around where the rod came out. I'm not sure why the oil is that black - I run Castrol Syntec - full synthetic and had changed it about 2,000 miles earlier.

Al · 10-22-2005, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by srt4eh

...so I can make one or two more appearances at oscars this year.

Lucky for you, the last saturday in December is the 31st.

**awsomeears** · 10-22-2005, 01:36 PM

Thats alots of damage for the speed you were going ( parking lot right )

Did you post that up on srtforums ?

**Silver03SRT** · 10-22-2005, 02:43 PM

dam eddie. i didnt think it was that bad.

**srt4eh** · 10-22-2005, 08:34 PM

yeah - 20mph in 2nd gear. Yeah - its on srtforums. I tried to make a joke out of it and say that this is the reason why you should remove the balance shaft assembly but I guess they all took me too seriously.

**srt4eh** · 10-22-2005, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by BlueBullet

Lucky for you, the last saturday in December is the 31st.

lucky for me I'll have it done for my birthday....which is friday the 28th of october

**Prince Valiant** · 10-23-2005, 06:22 PM

I'd be tempted to pull the heads and do a little work while the engine is out...hey, any work that would amount to gains on a NA car ~ doubles on a turbo car that runs about 14-15lbs of boost...so what might result in a 20hp gain for the NA engine because twice the value on a turbo car with 40hp gains...

**srt4eh** · 10-23-2005, 08:59 PM

no cash right now....i'm tapped and my mom wants the car out of her garage so - out she comes. I do have a spare head though...and there will be work done on it

**awsomeears** · 10-23-2005, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by srt4eh

no cash right now....i'm tapped and my mom wants the car out of her garage so - out she comes. I do have a spare head though...and there will be work done on it

Eddie remember I PM'D you about some dude that does head work.

Here is his website

Prices are killer to

http://www.fierro-racing.net/

A bunch of neons.org guys had him do work and they all say its Awsome.

** Full Race port , must specify Turbo or Naturally Aspirated
$500 for full race add $50 for oversized valves.
Mill Head to increase compression ratio $45
Cleaning, valve job, port matching and assembly included **

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