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Apr 17, 2010 | 04:00 PM

Rushin

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We took apart my friend's motor today as there was water in the oil. Figured it was a head gasket. Unfortunately, it was part of the block missing. The majority of the piston was in the oil pan. We pulled out enough sleeve/block that the hole was about the size of a dollar bill. We also found a bolt inside and think that was the cause of the problem. If you look close at the second picture, you can see the bolt wedged between the rod wrist pin and what's left of the cylinder wall. I can send out souvenirs tomorrow.

By the way, this is a stock motor. Stock heads/cam and no nitrous/boost.

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Apr 17, 2010 | 04:30 PM

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Sorry to hear about your friends misfortune, BUT I love carnage .

Apr 17, 2010 | 05:28 PM

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this was a running engine? the only reason you tore it apart was water in the oil? no noise?

Apr 17, 2010 | 06:21 PM

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holy moly.

Apr 17, 2010 | 06:42 PM

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Woah...

Was he low on oil, did he overheat, overrev? .. seems like an odd thing to just happen on a stock engine.

Man that made me wince.

Apr 17, 2010 | 07:35 PM

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Yeah man just change the oil more often now and ignore the horrible noise. I think shes got a few miles left on her lol

Apr 17, 2010 | 07:44 PM

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Yeah man just change the oil more often now and ignore the horrible noise. I think shes got a few miles left on her lol

jkin man that sucks time for a new build?

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Apr 19, 2010 | 10:14 AM

Rushin

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this was a running engine? the only reason you tore it apart was water in the oil? no noise?

Yeah it was running. He called me and said it was leaking water and tapping, but nothing horrible. The car was running fine up until Friday night and I'm really not sure how a bolt got in there. Just for reference it was a 10mm. We already have a 5.3 to throw back in there for the time being.

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Originally Posted by LS12Fast4U

Yeah man just change the oil more often now and ignore the horrible noise. I think shes got a few miles left on her lol

Yeah we just cleaned it out and threw the heads back on. It's running better than ever.