hey guys, here is the inside of my stock bottom end 107k LS1. Heads/cam car with a 7100 rev limiter. out of a 01 trans am. Rod bolt let go and it went from there:

 

Whoa!

 

jesus that sucks makes me want to not get the cam but o well good luck with the new build. also were u spinning to 7k alot?

 

jb weld is what your looking for....

that sucks... anything in the upper end salvageable?

 

Naaaaaa. it's more of a hot glue job...

 

Holy ****. That sucks man.

 

You broke it alright

 

This happened to a friend of mine a while back. Think of it as an excuse to build a nice new forged bottom end. Is the block salvageable?

Did you put some good rod bolts in it or were they stockers too?

I'm running a stock bottom end and I've got the limiter set to 7K. It's usefull to have that over rev for the circuit.

I bought a set of ARP bolts to go in in before the track days start again (It's winter here)

Cheers

Michael

 

damn dude! i bet that sounded really nasty when that happend, the really scares me about mine. Id be crying like a little girl if that happend to mine. Goodluck with the rebuild.

 

stock rod bolts, it seen 7000 on a regular basis. Too regular apparently. The block is cracked on both sides, so its junk. I was able to save the heads/cam/lifters/pushrods, bascially the entire top end of the motor. Sold it all tonight for 1350. Thats going to help fund the 408 build :-)

 

damn man well at least look at it this way now u can go bigger and better

 

holy **** man! i would throw up everywhere if that happened to me.

 

I would pig out on ice cream and cry myself to sleep if that happened to me


And then wake up the next morning and start planning my 408 build

 

jb weld? PSHHH

duct tape will fix that up just fine.

 

i cried when my 346 let go 2 1/2 years ago LOL..... sorry to hear you broke Rodney but you'll come back stronger
man you did do a number on it though !

 

Ouch.

Im assuming you were getting on it pretty good when that happened?

G/L on the 408 build!

 

LOOKIN GOOD!! Wish my LS1 did that and not my first 427 build hahaha.

Welcome to the club! Time for a new 408ci eh?

 

Damn!!! I think "carnage" is an understatement!!

 

pretty typical when you are spinning it at 7K... It would of been fine if you left it at 6800 rpm with the limter set. Time to go big boy...

 

awesome.