[King Tut]

Originally Posted by civicdrivr

On the 9th run, it put down 286/216 at the wheels. Then the oil volcano happened. The rod snapped about an inch below the wrist pin, spun around and punched a t shaped hole in the block. The cause? No idea. The logs from the run showed zero detonation, AFR was dead on (factory O2, so there's that...), there was no knocking, and it did not overboost (IIRC, the logs showed 9.4psi). I must also mention that I kept the stock rev limit as I saw no need to rev higher.

I have some pics of the carnage that I can post when I'm not on the work laptop. But yea, that was my experience with this motor.

Also, not that this matters anymore, but Visconti picked up the tab of the motor and the labor, and drove me 4hrs back home that night (then turned around and drove all the way back to CT), so lets not use my experience to disparage him - there are plenty of others that can easily accomplish that.

Thanks for posting the details.