DP #24 Engine failure....

[Rich Biebel]

Wow.....that is a terrible looking mess of parts......

From what I see...it appears to be a major failure without a spun bearing or anything related to friction in the rods or crank.

Difficult to determine what broke first as most of it is collateral damage after the initial part failure....

Is it possible there was contact with something you overlooked at very high rpm? Like a rod hitting the cam or the block somewhere......it would easily explain the abrupt failure of the rod or rod bolt .......

Something either flat broke or something was hitting something and caused the breakage......

The parts don't look to be poor at all...... even the rods look fine and the bolts appear to be decent...maybe std material, and they are usually pretty fair.....

Anytime I have an event like that I get rid of the busted up stuff as quickly as possible.....I have this thing about blown up parts....I don't want their bad Karma to attach itself to any new parts I get.......SCRAP that mess ASAP......Learn what you can from it and JUNK that stuff......LOL