Stainless,
From the looks of the rod where the big end used to be, it looks like it welded itself to the crank and then broke off. Do you see the problem as an oil/lub system problem or an assembly problem??
Rex
Yes, we were able to throw the car on the dyno the day before we left for WoS, had a minor problem with the Cam drive gear bolt, caused the engine to ingest a little water, took it back and cleaned out the oil system got it all back together and left. My guess is that we probably started something in the bottom end. Oil pressure was always 60+.
Our pistons all clayed well, but something is a little different at 8000 RPM, our shake down pass at half throttle for 3 gears seemed to go well. The next pass was to see if we could qualify the car. Just after the shift to 3rd at 8500 I heard a noise and shut it off. Now we all know what that was. Looking at the pistons they all were a little close to the side of the chamber.
who did you have make the 2.00 gears
Thanks
Steve
Our rear end is a Hub City 1050 gear box, it had a 1.5 set in it and that was geared a little high for NA 3 liter. We ordered the 2.0 from them, the gears were Aero. They make 1:1 if you need to go 500.
I'd been wondering too, I heard some rumours from someone who was there and posted on another build diary we have asking if I knew of you guys ...by the brevity of the reply, I get the sense it wasn't a planned budget item.
Keep us up to date when the weather improves.
Yea Doc, I owed ya some pictures, these were definitely not a planned requirement. I will post a few more carnage shots before we start to build. There are a few other issues with the motor that we are working out. You may have noticed the chamber was 4.01 wide, might be a little large for our bore.
It will take a little work, and a lot of reading about Buick 6's, but we will give it another shot.
Sometimes you just get overcome by events, too bad you can't look back before