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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: That is not good. Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:23 pm | |
|  Kicked a rod out of my Chevy 355 in my Nova today at the track. I just put it in in January. Only made 17 passes. This sucks. | |
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type 4
State Route
Posts : 2601
Join date : 2010-08-31
Age : 63
Location : Penn Valley
| | Subject: not good Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:18 am | |
| This is what happens when you have more than one race car.  | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:28 pm | |
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type 4
State Route
Posts : 2601
Join date : 2010-08-31
Age : 63
Location : Penn Valley
| | Subject: sorry Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:15 pm | |
| You were doing so good.  | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:29 am | |
| I know. Plus it's a fresh rebuild. There were no telltale signs beforehand. | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:29 am | |
| I have a line on another shortblock, so I'll be back in action soon. | |
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type 4
State Route
Posts : 2601
Join date : 2010-08-31
Age : 63
Location : Penn Valley
| | Subject: hey Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:21 am | |
| I have 8 brand new 327 pistons standard bore collecting dust never opened the box. I would never do it but you never know  | |
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60herbie53
State Route
Posts : 2879
Join date : 2011-01-12
Age : 63
Location : Higgins Corner
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:33 pm | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:12 am | |
| The teardown...  Chunks in oil pan. Couple chunks of rod cap, bearing material, and a chip off the old block.  Piston hit the head, bent both valves.  Piston.  | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:16 am | |
|  There's the rod.  Needless to say, it's a little tweaked.  Cracked the cylinder wall. 
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:17 am | |
| All caused by this one rod bolt not being torqued to spec.  | |
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60herbie53
State Route
Posts : 2879
Join date : 2011-01-12
Age : 63
Location : Higgins Corner
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:40 pm | |
| It's amazing how so much damage can happen in so little time. | |
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Davids74Super
SacTown
Posts : 948
Join date : 2010-07-08
Age : 35
Location : Wilton, CA
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:23 am | |
| Took the motor and all pieces to the machine shop today. I showed them to the #2 man there. At first he was like, "well, if there wasn't enough oil....", but I showed him the loose rod bolt, he just looked at it and sighed, then I told him about how I checked the others, and found a loose one. I could tell he knew someone screwed up on the assembly. So long story short, they're going to re-sleeve the cracked cylinder, replace the crank, rods, damaged pistons, oil pump, oil pan, and do a valve job on the head, and reassemble the block for me. | |
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60herbie53
State Route
Posts : 2879
Join date : 2011-01-12
Age : 63
Location : Higgins Corner
| | Subject: Re: That is not good. Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:45 pm | |
| Good deal. At least they stand behind their work. | |
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