Well it's been about a half a year since I've been on the forums. I've been busy with college and haven't found time to be doing much with my car since I finished with what I was building this summer. I decided I'd go home and get my dart for the weekend and take it down to Georgia Southern for a game (about 3.5h each way). Checked my fluids before heading out and kept an eye on everything while I was driving, maintained 40 psi of oil pressure the entire time, and was sitting on the cool side of my thermostat. Got about 3 hours into the trip in the middle of nowhere and heard a slight clacking sound for a couple seconds. Looked down at my oil gauge and watched it dip to 30 psi and thought, "holy **** something's about to happen" and then there was a big old boom and smoke coming from the engine bay while going 70 down the interstate.
Got control of the vehicle, safely got it to the side of the road and shut off the car. Looked in the engine bay and there's a big ol' hole in the side of the block and everything's flowing out of it.
I walked behind the car in the emergency lane about 200 feet and found a couple pieces that had come out.
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