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Engine Commited Suicide!


zygott
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turns out whoever built the engine forgot to tighten up the con rod bolts on no2. that conrod exploded, killing the sump and block. both the sump bolts and con rod bolts were in finger tight!, and there was no bearing in there either!

 

on a side note, what should the bolts look like, all the pictures i have seen show a normal bolt head, these ones look like a 12 point star head? they look the same as arp ones listed on burton's website, no idea if they are or not.

 

cabby is back on the road now, has an xr3i efi engine in it, ofac parts are being sold. i will live with it standard. should realy have left it standard, car has only had 3 former keepers, got a history with it, 130k.

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