So I was taking the rings off my hurt #7 piston...
12-27-2005, 05:02 PM
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So I was taking the rings off my hurt #7 piston... Back in november, I thought the car was kinda sluggish. Only ran 10.7x in real good air...so I thought a tear down was in order.
Found a cracked ringland
In all reality that didn't look too bad. But today, I decided to get a look at the back side of the rings (in the ring lands) and the piston did this
I definately ran 10.70 on 7 cylinders
Thought that was pretty interesting...Nothing like blowing out ringlands on a N/A car
Found a cracked ringland
In all reality that didn't look too bad. But today, I decided to get a look at the back side of the rings (in the ring lands) and the piston did this
I definately ran 10.70 on 7 cylinders
Thought that was pretty interesting...Nothing like blowing out ringlands on a N/A car
I'd be out buying a lottery ticket right now if I were you!
12-27-2005, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by My90Iroc
Wow, that's scary. What exactly is your setup and how high were you spinning it?
RPM didn't do it...it was stupidity. The time before I ran on 93 octane in
-2000 ft air with .040 milled 5.3L heads... a bit too much for pump gas
12-27-2005, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by SideStep
YOUSER!!! Where there any "signs" before you tore it down that would have pointed to this???
Good Luck,
Good Luck,
big sign was the rear grommet on the driver side valvecover blew out from the crankcase pressure...at the time I didn't equate it to that...
12-27-2005, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Fireball
RPM didn't do it...it was stupidity. The time before I ran on 93 octane in
-2000 ft air with .040 milled 5.3L heads... a bit too much for pump gas
-2000 ft air with .040 milled 5.3L heads... a bit too much for pump gas
Can you send me the specs on the Trex cam from the cam card so I can compare DCR against the cam I'm planning? Thanks.
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12-27-2005, 06:50 PM
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bought new pistons/rods from valvegod 
No need to throw stupid money at the shortblock...the power is on the topend
ETP 225s on order
No need to throw stupid money at the shortblock...the power is on the topend
ETP 225s on order
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I was having the same symptoms, sluggish and a few tenths off. I found scratches on #7 cylinder last night. The engine is coming out this week and I suspect the same has happened to me. This had been an FI engine and had encountered some detonation.
12-27-2005, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Fireball
bought new pistons/rods from valvegod
No need to throw stupid money at the shortblock...the power is on the topend
ETP 225s on order
No need to throw stupid money at the shortblock...the power is on the topend
ETP 225s on order
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12-28-2005, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
So those were the stock rods and pistons?
I wasn't running stock rings though. I had diamond pro selects at .018/.022
