I was victorious this weekend...

[Grr]

coulda had a v8.....

parking it for the year dave?

[2wheeler]

Wow.

[91nbtsi]

Wow Dave, you are not having good luck this year! I bet some JB weld will take care of it though! Where is the video? heh.

[DaveH]

Yep, I'm done for the year. I don't have a spare block anymore so I need to start searching for one. Matt has video on his camera, I guess you can see the parts flying out from under the car. Good times.

[zbrown]

Damn! sucks Dave

awesome carnage though!

[capitlj]

You found weak link, build it stonger... repeat ad infinitim. So goes the quest for speed.

[DaveH]

I pulled the engine today, here are a few shots for humor.

In this pic, you can see that main caps #5 and #6 broke and are completely gone, main cap #7 is about 2/3 gone (one ARP stud still hanging in there). Main cap #4 is broke in 2 pieces but is still in there, main cap #3 is cracked and still hanging in as well.

[63vette]

Glad it happened early. Down track could have been very bad. SBC?

[Top End]

Any idea what the initial cause was yet?

[zbrown]

Top End;315639 wrote:
Any idea what the initial cause was yet?

^^ yeah how does that happen?

[funky_monkey58]

63vette;315637 wrote:
SBC?

WIN!

[Corwin Customs]

DaveH;315636 wrote:
I pulled the engine today, here are a few shots for humor.

Air cooled crank case.....all the rage these days....

Looks like you just need a new/better oil filter

Yup...I'm going with new oil filter and the whole thing should be good to go.

[Factory Freak]

Damn

[legacy-user-615]

Looks like you are still using factory type motor mounts, time for solid plates front and at bell hsg. you might/probably are twisting and distorting the block. Caps can't stay in the registers.:icon_scratch:

[DaveH]

2.2=8;315808 wrote:
Looks like you are still using factory type motor mounts, time for solid plates front and at bell hsg. you might/probably are twisting and distorting the block. Caps can't stay in the registers.:icon_scratch:

Hey Warren! All of the high hp guys still use stock motor mounts, pretty much the concensus is that the stock main caps are maxed out around 1100 hp. Soo.... check this out. We took Matts engine apart and see what we find inside:

So how does that work? My caps break and fly out of the block breaking everything else in sight. But Matts break and say "no problem, we'll just stay put and keep the engine together.

[91nbtsi]

Jeez, looks like Matt got VERY lucky on that engine! Crazy.

[Rexwagon]

brutal

[fallguy]

Yep...dodged a bullet there. I bet one more pass would've finished it off.

[probe this]

wow! good thing u parked her matt

[DaveH]

I whipped these up in the garage using a drill press and a belt sander. I hope they will be strong enough...