Six_Shooter's money pit and time vampire... v.240Z

Speculating, because I never did get to the track with this combo to get any solid numbers, but I'd say high 300s, if not low 400s. There was a lot more get up and go with the new cam over the old one and I know that was low 300s at that point.

[34blazer]

What kind of power do you think it was producing?

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I have to pull the data log from my AEM Failsafe gauge to see if there was any sort of spike, but I don't recall there being any at the time.
I think I've just abused the stock parts for long enough that they decided to give up.

I believe that #4 let go first, not sure whether it was the skirt or the ring land first, but then there wasn't enough space for piston and rod and extra length under the head so the rod then broke, and that breakage caused lots of debris and took out the #3 rod...

Last bit of the carnage:



#3 on the right and what's left of #4 of the left...

More carnage:

[34blazer]

Nice work! Any data on this failure? Boost spike, knock?

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[Purple pit]

Oh man that is nasty.

Carnage Pictures...









I found bits of the piston ring land in the lifter valley


You know it's bad, when you hear "tink", "clink", etc when you roll the engine over on the stand to pull the pan off. lol





That rounded piece is part of the piston ring land, found right where it is shown in the picture. Somehow top parts of the piston made it into the bottom end!

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I blow'd it up realll good. lol

[34blazer]

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So a little bit of an update...

So this happened just after leaving school on Tuesday afternoon:


Yeah, the block and oil pan shouldn't look like that


I'll post up high res pictures when I get a chance to get them off the camera.

The carnage is pretty good. hahaha

[Purple pit]

None of that here yet, now the rain has started so the snow is not far away. Yeah it's the end of the car work season.

Awesome! Keep up the good work.

Thanks.

I will. Unfortunately some of that white crap from the sky fell on the ground here last night, so it's really time to put the car away. I'll likely drive it a few more times before the white stuff accumulates, but there will definitely be no new track times until spring.

[Purple pit]

Awesome! Keep up the good work.

Well, I've been driving the car for a couple days now with the new clutch and I'm starting to get used to the engagement of the clutch. I can nearly pull away smoothly like a near stock clutch, but it's not a slow accel.

Some pictures of the trans and install:

Old trans on the floor in just under an hour.


I think the CFDF got a bit warm. lol


Spacer/shim for the new trans


Just checking the spine is correct before install


6 puck goodness


Yellow makes it go faster.


Just a few shots after the new trans is installed. It slid in better than any trans I have ever done. once I got the input spline lined up with the clutch disc it slid straight up to the block, no wiggling, no messing around, straight to the block. I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't witnessed it myself.