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Originally Posted by Toasty
Hey, it's backwards
hahaha made you look! :P
you've got a bit of time before the Hooters cruise, get movin!  |
We did think about putting it in sideways for a minute or two
Trent, I can't thank you enough for all you've done man!
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Originally Posted by garcmol
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Originally Posted by toesuf94
Way to go Hugger! It looks great in there.
Please tell me the grenaded block will now become a coffee table somewhere....slap some glass on it and call it a "gentle reminder". That is quite the destruction there. Wow.
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I wanted to make it into a planter....alas I had to surrender the core and it's all related parts to GM to get the stellar price i got on the engine.
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Originally Posted by SSOOCH
You can't keep Hugger down!!!
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Nope....takes more than broken parts to keep me down.
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Originally Posted by f5journal
So, I take it this is a "long block"...since the majority of all the externals are fine?
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It's a long block complete from valve covers to oil pan...made it pretty damn easy.
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Originally Posted by Russell James
I highly doubt the rod as the cause. Very rare for these engines to break a rod with no other cause. Plus the piston in a broken rod motor would probably look different. The broken rods I've seen, often the piston is in a few big pieces.
When you smack a cast piston into open valves at high RPM it looks like yours - shattered into a thousand pieces. That impact can also then fracture the cast rod or it can fracture when it jams into the cylinder wall.
Plus the fact that Comp Cams is well aware of their little pin length problem. When that pin shears you see most of the valves bent, and a piston/rod or two taken out if at high RPM. Especially if stronger push rods were used.
I think the cam pin problem is much more likely.
Be real careful with the debris on anthing being reused, like the intake or oil cooler. Many will take the safe route and not reuse those two parts. Especially the oil cooler. Very hard to get every shard of sharp aluminum out of those.
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I'm not sure I'll ever know what really caused the failure, the one thing I think we can all agree on is that it was EPIC.
I did purchase a new intake....the oil cooler looked to be okay, but I flushed it multiple times to be safe. No metal debris came out of it on any of the flushings. Once the rod went through the block/pan it was lights out for the engine...
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Originally Posted by TonyNo
I think I saw a pic where parts shot through the manifold, so, that kills the reuse anyway.  |
Tony, parts shot EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Nvincent4708
there ya go!
How fun was it to mate the trans up to the engine? This wasn't fun when doing mine.
My internals will stay the same too.. but a supercharger is a bolt on..right?
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How fun was it?!?!? IT SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I figured we'd spend 30 minutes dropping it in tops......took us almost an hour and half of wrestling with it to finally get it lined up.
Supercharger is bolt on.....the powdered internals scare the hell out of me...I'm not gonna lie to ya. I don't think I'm doing anything special to this engine. Don't want to go through this again!