Was at norwalk on 9-11, on the second pass it let go with a bang. These rods (lunati pro billet) were 5 years old. I thought about replacing them last winter, just didn't have the funds with the rest of the work I did on the car. I have the bone stock (12,000 mile) ls1 that came in the car. I am going to put it in for now. Maybe chase the stock LS1 record. Car is very heavy, 3825 on the norwalk scales. Good news is the aluminum block will get me in the low 3700 area.

 

Damn, that sucks, you just got it all together not too long ago. What were you spinning it to?

What is the stock ls1 record?

 

Under 7300

 

ouch! those are some major carnage pics!

 

gawt damn son u broke it good!!! Sorry to see the carnage.

 

that sucks bro did anything make it out ok LOL

 

Rockers, lifters and pushrods

 

Sorry to hear it buddy. You have a beautiful build. Good luck on the stock record and BTW I wouldn't reuse those rocker with the amount of debris that went through your motor.

 

Ouch. Good luck with new setup.

 

Nice carnage. What did it run?

 

Damn you tore that bitch up. It doesn't look like anything is salvageable. I've got those rods too, Lunati says they are good to 1100 fwhp.

 

That pass was a 12xx
Best was 9.03@155 at a shitty track.

Race weight that night was #3825. Trapping 155 I know thats over 1k at the wheels. They did suffer some abuse over the 5 seasons they were in.

 

the head studs look like they are sill good!

 

lol i was thinnking the same thing when i saw the pic, no wonder we are friends!!


Sorry to see what happened man. its almost winter now you have a lot of time to work on it man! keep us updated as to what you do!

 

Ouch Ray

 

thats some detonation!
ya i dont think rods can handle much power when that happens.
dang!

 

There was no detonation. The plugs are like brand new. When the piston got busted it opened that chamber and pushed a **** ton of aluminum into the intake. It then went through all the other chambers. There were pieces of ring and piston in some of the chambers. There was oil all the way up to the intercooler and chunks of aluminum laying against the throttle body. I had made about 15 passes with the same boost and tune and checked the plugs 3 times, the engine never pushed any water at all. It was a very soft tuneup.

 

looks like the rod bolt broke.how many times were the rod bolts used,and were they torqued or stretched?

 

Three times, ya I know
Stretched the last time anyway.

 

Racing on 9-11 !!! That was bad idea....Good luck in your new build..