Why'd these rod bearings spin?
 

Can anyone offer any insight as to why they feel this rod might've spun a bearing, and why.
There is a story - and I am quite sure I know what happened, that I'll share after the fact, but I'd like to get some of your opinions first.

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thanks in advance

There's plenty of things that could have caused them to spin. No oil, low oil pressure, wrong clearances etc. How do the pistons look? Good luck.

Aaron

I've just got the caps off the rods so far. I don't have even have the mains off.

looks like you knocked the $hit out of your motor....

bearings are tough....to get them to flatten out like that takes some serious pressure / force.

for what ever reason, #1 & #3 generally are the worse for wear...in your case, #1 took it in the shorts.

what leads you to that conclusion?

Sorry, I'm disagreeing - I just want to know what potentially could've happened - and why. My insurance provider is stating this is not a result of water damage, but cannot tell me what happened - or why my engine was fine before I dumped the oil/water out of my crank case.

detonation = rapidly high cylinder pressure = pounding of the rod bearings.....why only cylinder #1???? $2& #3 dont look great either...

whats the highest rpm your motor saw? honestly....

stock ecu, so whatever rev cut is. 7000 ish?

what water are you speaking of? flood damage or coolant? If its coolant then the answer is self explanatory.

it was flood damage, but the strange thing is that I didn't bend a rod - My reasoning is that I blew the headgasket and then driving it to the shop (after blowing out the combustion chambers of course) caused the bearings to spin. The engine was running like a bag of ****, and by the time I got to the shop (2 blocks away) I was starting to have fears that the engine was blown.

Now my insurance agent is saying that this is 100% not a result of the engine being flooded. They cannot state what did do it, and cannot offer any insight as to why my car was running fine before the flash flood - but I am going to my first arbitration meeting this week - and want to be as prepared as possible - as speaking with them they've based their decisions on nothing but their "gut feelings" and cannot offer any evidence, or objective insights.

Upon doing the oil change after getting to the shop there was probably 2 or 3 extra litres of water that came out of the crank case - which they seemed to have completely ignored, and keep asking me how the water got in there. I explain that there was a flood, my car was in the flood, and that lots of water came out of the engine, and then my engine didn't run properly - according to what I've gathered, they believe this to be either coincidence, or me pulling some sort of scam (even though I have a powertrain warranty on my car)

Holy **** it's Kangarod, ****ty deals about the evo. That's probably why i haven't seen it out in a while. I'm having a bit of bad luck with mine as of late.....bad karma or something....

yeah well now you know. Now you also know why I no longer have faith in Autopac.

I read the estimators report today. His reasoning for denying my claim is that "the noise from the engine is from a result of spun bearings, and not a hydrolock condition."

Those bearings are damaged due to a lack of oil and/or seriously dirty oil. Could be from water contamination. Hopefully we will learn to tow and not drive damaged - or suspected damaged - vehicles. Much cheaper than repairs.

Don't forget that the primary job of your insurance company is to deny any and all claims. It's what they live for!

Have patience and keep pushing back. You will have to educate them.