Wow!! I've been trying to see that kind of power a manley h-beam can handle, but this certainly isn't the type of data I was looking for. Good luck with the new build.

 

how many miles & how old was the build?

 

Sorry to hear about this failure...
What mods were on the car...?
Did you have water/meth injection...?

 

holy crap! Good luck with the new build...Like some others have said, I am down for making a small donation to the new build...

 

man that sucks

hope you are able to figure out where the oil/fluid was coming from so it doesn't happen again.

 

Wow that really sucks!! Sorry to hear about this man. I hope that you can figure out what happened as I am very curious along with many others.

 

I did the same thing to a Mustang engine a few years back. Heads had been on and off the engine a few times, I skimped and didn't replace the head studs after torquing and retorquing them twice. Yes, they held the torque when I rechecked them with the torque wrench, but I had this "gut" feeling I should throw new ones in.

Well, I ignored that gut feeling and payed the price when pushing 25lbs of boost it lifted the passenger side head and allowed the cylinder to draw in water near the end of the 1/4 mile at over 165mph. Scary business when you're going that fast and you suddenly find your tires covered in oil and water.

 

Jesus...

 

Just curious why you think it hydrolocked and not just that it threw the rod from piston or rod failure?

 

^ cause the rod is bent.

 

If you throw a rod it will get all screwed up. Was the small end still attached to the piston/wrist pin? What did the piston itself look like?

Were you running pump, pump and meth or E85?

 

I'm runnning pump + meth. It popped under light accelleration in rush hour traffic at around 5psi.

The bearings were fine, the crank was fine, the wrist pin was fine, and small end of the rod was fine... it just bent and broke. The piston itself got bounced around and mangled up, but the head and valves seem untouched.

 

OH !! Couldn't have happened to a better person. I'm in for donating to your motor build.

 

i did the same thing to my dodge ram it sucked good luck man

 

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Of course, the inevitable question "what's next?" Well, I've ordered a BR 2.1L Destroker and BR Stage 3 MIVEC Head. I've already got a bunch of other parts awaiting install... most notably an HTA86 and a Garrett 3.8" Core FMIC.

Can't hide money! What clutch are you going with now?