Whoa Jesse,
Well, a non-interferance engine, most of the time!
Amazing, the cylinder wall cracked all the way through, from those little flying saucers no doubt.
WAS THE CRANK HURT? Was that rod big end still on the crank? If so, save the crank for me, will ya? I've got some experimenting to do myself.
And the busted head could be good for some flow bench experimentation, on the two good cylinders. Hang on to it if you can. Can't afford to waste good heads for flow experiments.
Yes, 700 rpms to 7000 rpms to 0 rpms, all in a flash. But it was fun while the tires were spinning
Tom, I guess you should sell those head gaskets to Jesse. He has proven himself worthy. Not to many out there can say they 'smoked' the competition with an SVX engine. I've only blown one engine in my time, not as much fun as this one though.
We all learn from this. Bring on the 'dedicated' engine.
Oh, LAN, I know you are reading along, the compressed thickness of the SVX head gasket appears to be .065.
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Originally Posted by Subafreak
I launched and then floored it, I thought I was in a safe range but it bogged pretty bad and then took off like a rocket, when I went to shift to second the car just wasn't running anymore, I looked in the rear view and saw a giant cloud of smoke. 
I don't really know what happend and all I could hear was the AutoXer next to me spining tire and throwing rocks around in it's wheel wells. I never heard the motor pop.  |