Still one of the best engine blowups....

[Qikbbstang]

Drew the blow-up of a 149Cu In per Cyl engine even getting half way to 6,000 is off the charts for me. One of my marine customer's ships was in the shipyard. As I drove by the dumpster I noticed a large new piston in blue in it. I climbed up on the dumpster thinking I get the ultimate coffee-table and tried to move it. It was cocked against an I-beam and figured it was being held in place. That night I took the CE and Port Eng out to dinner and had them laughing when I told them of my failed attempt to snatch the piston out of the dumpster - it had flunked Mag and was tossed. How was I to know a  Colt-Pielstick piston weighed 550lbs?

[fe66comet]

On one of my Buick 455 engines the crank,pistons, rods and all went throught the pan. Meanwhile the heads and intake blew a big hole in the hood. After that I invested in a tach with a rev limiter, who knew a big block Buick comes appart after 7000 RPM, you live you learn. A chunk of rod was embedded so deep in the track they had to use a chipper hammer and pry bar to remove it.

[fe66comet]

Lager, of course.

Dammit Shady... of course lager.....  I can't drink that many Black and Tan's in a month off.
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Hmm Yeanlings Black and Tan, I have had a few incidents caused that way. One with a chainsaw.