Eagle Forged Stroker Crank CRACKED

pittsburghracer said
In the 1980’s I did the same thing on a 440 but I saw the oil pressure doing something funky on a 10 second pass so I loaded up the car and took it home. I had an open trailer with an open deck so I pulled the pan and started pulled main caps. I found the stock 440 crank broke in half so after work on Monday I unloaded the car, pulled the engine while my local speed shop did a crank for me. The hardest part was working a full time job in the mill and then replacing the crank but I had it rebuilt and made Friday nights point race. I did need to call on two friends to hold the rods back as I lowered the crank in. I wouldn’t do half the crazy stuff today that we used to do. But we sure had fun.

That reminds me of one long weekend racing. I was experimenting with a carb spacer that had a slot to insert a sheet metal divider. Long story short, the divider worked loose and metal went through the intake into a cylinder. There was no damage to the head or the cylinder, the piston just looked like it had been shot blasted clean. I pulled the heads and removed the metal bits, left the car at the track overnight, and went home and bought a gasket set. The next day I put everything back together and continued racing. Oh to be young and have that much energy again.