0Randy@DRM

Here is a few engine pictures that we took after removing it from a C6. We had nothing to do with it, until this point. This is one of the worst ones we have seen. It was a stock bottom end with a pretty aggresive head and cam package. It was at the road race track when it went away. We are thinking piston failure. The customer asked "How are you going to prevent this from happening again" I told him "We spent about 1400 bucks of your money on the best piston we can get"

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Randy
www.dougrippie.com

C5 Hardtop

That is aweful!

Any idears on why it "went away" ? Was it tuned too lean or something?

wtknght1

nice!!!!

I was at Roebling the year that Phil Croyle's C5 did its best impression of Halley's Comet down the front straight. You could stick your whole head in the side of that block it detonated so big!!!!! Wow!!

AU N EGL

missed one

AU N EGL

damn? LS2 or LS3 ?

mgarfias

For any of you quake fans out there: IMPRESSIVE

wtknght1

Oooh, oooh, oooh....pick me...pick me...I know this one.

AU N EGL

Chris for $100

AU N EGL

Randy if you want to impress some ppl post this over in LS1Tech.

Those guys are so hung up on how GOOD LS3s / L92s blocks and heads are with BIG LS3 cams.

0Randy@DRM

LS2

Randy

AU N EGL

any idea yet on the heads and cam ?

mgarfias

Any chance it dropped a valve to break the piston? I ask as there were no pix of the heads.

BrianCunningham

hyperpneumatic pistons

Glad I went forged

now you know why I'm spending the time & $$$ on a dry sump

0Randy@DRM

Valves are all there and bent. The stock pushrods were left in They took one hell of a impact which saved the heads. They are a LPE CNC 243 casting. We are 99 percent sure we will be able to save them.

Randy

wtknght1

If you run an LS2 or 3 without a dry sump, you most likely will end up with that same situation in the pics. It's just a matter of time.

0Randy@DRM

Confession time. My dry-sump engine had a very simular experience. I got horsepower crazy with my LS6 short block. Mild timing, mild compression, 185 water, 240 oil, 6000 rpm. WC car power with stock bottom end makes for long nights at the shop....

The crank journals look very good, well besides the mess.

Randy

Z06_BluByU

how much power are we talking about (horsepower crazy) on the stock LS6 bottom end before it went kablooy?

rasrboy

Thats damn near what my stock LS6 looked like when I blew it at Nelson's last year in the T1 car. I wasn't so lucky to atleast have reuseable heads though.

I took all the sensors out and scraped it for $60.00 to the aluminum guy!

RedLS1GTO

John Shiels

Randy I hate to say this but I think I have you beat. My cammed LS-1 that went at 50,000. I'll have to dig up the pictures:o