I lost a rod in the old 350 that was originally in my Shoebox on the way back from California last year. It blew a nice hole in the pan. I sat on the side of the road in the community of Wagon Wheel, NM east of Albuquerque for over 10 hrs waiting to be rescued with a trailer(thanks dad!). I was cruising along at around 75mph down I-40 at about 7 AM...after spending the night in a motel parking lot in Albuquerque . Good oil pressure, temp running right on the thermostat...and BANG! ...no warning. There's no (public) phone in Wagon Wheel, and no services. I had to stand on the center of the overp*** in the background to get any cell phone service...It took me a while to figure that out.
If I saved all the "Blowed Up Parts" from my Mopars and Fords I would of needed a 30 yard dumpster! But I could have made a lot of money when the price of S**** went up...!!!
Everyone is a comedian!!! That is funny I used to use one half of the spider gear that I split in an old Dana 44 as a paper weight, then while limping home I had enough beers to ring off 2nd from the cluster gear. All with the power of a Dauntless 225 V-6
I knew I recognized that quote..... Stripes with Bill Murray General: Where's your drill sergeant men? John: Blown up sir. Platoon: Blown up sir. Stillman: Yes sir these are Sgt. Hulka's men. He was injured during basic training. General: I see. So am I to understand that you men completed your training on your own? John: That's the fact Jack. Platoon: That's the fact Jack.
flt blk... That's the fact, Jack!! Stripes came to my mind when I was thinking about this topic... Travis
Okay here's my ka-blam! I used to make-out with rods 7 & 8 late at night, but I've misplaced them since I've upgraded to Tripower. Prolly stuffed under my bed with the bodies. **x Brandy
some where i have the remains of a hogs head off a T that i blew up when the warford in my T siezed...somewhere.
Still have a piston out of my first stock car motor- Olds 425. First night I raced I won my heat then blew the crank out of the motor in the main.
I wish I'da take pics of the 360 in my 300. I bought it cheap cuz the kid said he was going down I696 (the Detroit Autobahn for you outtatowners) and it "quit running". So I got it home, and drained the "oil". Well, over a gallon of antifreeze and a skim coat of oil later, I took off the pan and found a iron mine in it. So I pulled the carb and found piston pieces in the intake. I thought that was bad. Pulled the heads and found no cylinder bore in #'s 6&8. And a con rod in 6 that looked like the one in the original post. Mercman1951, did you take pix? But, on the plus side, alotta money later, I got an 11:1 Edelbrock headed, Purpleshaft cammed, balanced 360 in it's place. Worked out ok, huh. Jay
Huh...no blown up Flathead V8 parts. Henry sure made 'em strong......stronge enuff to hold 100 hp anyways.
Had to add this video to the list...! This'll leave a mark if it hit you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g7_bHlQhd8&NR Trying to find the video of the blower exploding while the guy had his hand over the Damn thing when it went...!
that video... you might be a redneck if you blow up an engine during a tractor pull. you might be a redneck if at a tractor pull your official "fire extinguisher" is a bucket of water.
Man, I hope whoever had to write out the check for that mess has a sense of humor... I got a little lightheaded looking at all that trashed alumininum...
You might be a redneck if you blew up that motor and then jumped up on the hood and hollared "FULL PULL!!!"
I think it's contagious a**** hot rodding circles to save your exploded parts... I still have the first part I ever blew out of a car - an early Chevy ring gear. Not sure where the pinion went... it was the more dramatic of the pair since half its teeth disappeared. The ring gear makes for a mighty fine clock, though.
Somebody should buy my T before I kill the 348. There is video somewhere of me in Sturgis doing a 3 minute 6K tire/fryer.....................yeah, it was wrong but the lawnchair sitters needed to be awakened.
It's not my Y block thank God !, belongs to a buddy of mine, you might have seen it at the roundup last 2 yrs in this car
Bug Man, it's an F code Y block, stroked to around 330 cu in, running 10# boost. Seems like he told me it dyno'd around 330 hp at the wheels when he had it on a ch***is dyno. I think he was coming off the line around 4600 rpm. that was his second Y block, here's the first one, he now has a 3rd Y block in it and is getting the parts together to build a '57 T-bird F code.
I've got parts off of Lance's (ground_pounder) 351C motor when the rod cap let loose, took out the oil pump, split the cam in a half dozen pieces and stuck a few pistons in the top of the block, along with cracking the skirt of the block and mixing lots of coolant and oil...he's got some of the twisted rods and pistons, I kept the cam gear end of the camshaft (with about 3 lobes worth of cam) and a de-skirted piston...gonna make a Detonators -CC- trophy out of that one day that we can p*** around within our club every time someone lives up to the name of the club...hehehe...
LOL,,,,,,,,,,my garage isn't big enough to hold all the mangled MEL blocks, rods, piston and heads,,,yes heads,,,that I torched in the early days. Once at Green Valley we pushed the crank out onto the track. That MEL hated nitro.
Here's the luckiest blowup I've ever been involved with. Valve broke at idle while staging. 526" TFX motor. Evidently it only turned over 3 times after it broke as there were 3 dents in the piston... We used the piston for the rest of the season. 1 valve and guide, changed the seats and were back in bizness
that video of the tractor... reminds me of being really drunk and throwing up really big... then little chunks keep coming out afterwards. Its really an amazing video. I hope no one got hurt. Makes me think of the guy on the drag bike that spits a piston out and it hits him in the hand!
Ouch...I have always wanted an unfixable blown up donovan to make into a coffe table but have never found one since they can fix almost anything with these blocks. I dunno about that one though...
I welded a bad rod from a $10000 pro built poncho engine to my drill press. While I was at it I wrote on the front wall of my shop in big letters "***UME NOTHING" to remind myself that one can't ***ume that the "bigshot engine builder" will tack the oil pump pickup on! The only man you can trust is yourself and if YOU didn't check and recheck it it's not ok. It is subject to failure. Have fun, sorry to rant but catastrophic engine failure is a sore spot for me as I saved for years to pay for that ***** only to be ****ed by some arrogant slobs amateurish mistake.
Not my car. This is from the Monterey Historics a few years ago. '20s Duesenberg Indy car was going down the main straight and BANG! This chunk came clean out the bottom and went bouncing down the track.
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