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Lightning
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by Lightning » Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:33 pm
was going through a random Mopar board and found this pic.
factory small-block rod that was in a hydrolocked cylinder.
more random pictures of engine carnage to follow.
unhinged......no, not really.
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by Abactus » Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:56 pm
wow, never seen anything similar
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by TurboGrinch » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:53 pm
snake rod
there was a post on a ford forum of a ford probe turbo (V6 i think) he blew his engine massivly never seen anything else before. there were loads of pics and a video, but i tryed a lot an cant find it again
Lightning
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by Lightning » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:17 pm
I never saw one like that until I came across it. The story is it's off of a powerboat motor that was turning around 6,000RPM when it hydrolocked. The boat's like those little boats with the multiple course ones run in with the navigator and the driver. A video of that kinda racing is floating around on here somewhere.
that's why we (Mopar guys) can't run stock rods on anything making over 450hp on our small block motors. Our tolerances weren't that great back in the '70's and '80's either.
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by down_shift » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:37 pm
jet sprints
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by AFSil80 » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:15 pm
Funny thing is, that was a good conrod in terms of engine failure...I'd much rather have that happen then have the sumbitch break.
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by Greg » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:21 pm
down_shift wrote: jet sprints
are awesome
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Lightning
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by Lightning » Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:42 pm
Greg wrote: down_shift wrote: jet sprints
are awesome
Yes!
AFSil80 wrote: Funny thing is, that was a good conrod in terms of engine failure...I'd much rather have that happen then have the sumbitch break.
I think it cracked the block though
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