Thread: Bent rod
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Old 01-29-2023, 04:05 AM   #6
stevieturbo

 
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Originally Posted by cc-rider View Post
I took out my engine in a very similar fashion as your stating. Was doing a big burnout and hit second gear and lit the tires up to the rev limiter…felt a big shudder and dropped rpm. Ended up being that the guts of my (supposed) high flow cats let loose…and lodged in my x-pipe. This plugged my exhaust in an instant at high rpm and sent a huge back pressure pulse back into my engine and took out the bearing on the piston that was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. I didn’t bend a rod. But it wiped out the bearing. Knock, knock, knock…

If you have cats…check them.
That seems a very unlikely scenario.
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