Finally pulled the motor to view the carnage...

Well, its been a long time, but I finally stopped shunning my car for blowing up at the finish line and decided to pull the engine to see what broke 2 years ago. Here is the original thread if interested.

I think I’m done for the year….


I drained the oil and found lots of copper particulates in the oil filter (bearing material). I pulled the motor and opened it up yesterday to confirm my what I thought….broken connecting rod, #3. It broke the block as well. The bearing on the #3 rod was destroyed, so my guess its the bearing went first, which in turn caused the rod to snap. Now starts the long process of finding a new block, machining it, getting new rods, pistons, bla bla bla....Thanks the good Lord my heads are fine. One of the valves lightly kissed the top of the #3 piston, but nothing major. It looks like the crank will clean up fine too after turning it 10 thousandths.