sorry for the crappy cell pics.. but this was a 350 with forged insides. built to run at 7400 rpms in our modified (class) blew the engine at 6600 but the engine was in sad shape for some reason we found small parts of rust in the engine...

the car it was in
piston #7

Piston #6 its actually almost side ways

 

a ring, don't know how it bent like that..

connection rod #7 (remember forged)

and my favorite, whats found on top of the rest of piston #7 and its a piece of the cam...

 

sad sad sad

 

more like an autopsy than a funeral lol

 

yeah, true.. the even more sad thing.. its going to cost us about 5.5K to get a new engine, and that car won't be on the track till maybe next friday...


but good news is.. my race car is being painted so hopefully i can get some good pics of it this weekend, i will def. take some crappy cell pics.

 

also, the the amazing part, was we pulled on lifter with out any damage from the debris under the piece of cam and pulled 2 perfect lifter rods... but not even the crank is savable the other connection rod is still attacked to the cam, but looks alot like the one i have a pic of...

 

jesus h christ! man, that is a seriously EFFED engine

 

So hows the block? Ca you tell yet? Is it scored and scared in the cylinders, or even cracked anywhere? If the block is ok it can be rebuilt and saved in the shop for a back up

 

rust spots say water infiltration... I'm gunna venture a guess: bad HG caused it to suck water into the chamber, it went hydraulic and bent the **** out of the rod on the upstroke, yanked the piston most the way out of the bore, broke the rod big end at the bottom of the throw which gets smacked by the crank and whips around to break the cam and destroy bottom end. Talk about a cascading failure.

 

um the block is gone, #7 the side is completely gone.. #6 has a crack from where it turned sideways on us.. #4 has a small score in it... the oil pan was busted on the side because #6 giving out. we found shards of metal on top of all the pistons, the pass. side head is actually perfectly fine, except a small small dent in the exhaust valve, the diver side is distorted... the intake is good... its tghe worst engine i have ever seen.. also Roger (the guy who drives it) Acey, my Dad, and Travis ( engine builder not this one but others) have ever seen also... its sad... but we are soo soo lucky the block didn't blow and threw debri all over the track.. but from the spot in the pass side where the oil pan had a hole fire shot probably about 3-5 feet out of the engine... the car was running straight race fuel 110 octane. but the good part is we are getting a stronger and faster engine for the car now..