Cool, let’s sync up soon.

Its funny, I’ve always assumed rod bearings caused the failure, guess that wasn’t the case. I ran that engine with a 7250rpm rev limit if I remember right, so a rod failure makes sense. I still remember the day she blew like it was yesterday. Crisp winter day, -10C, driving in rush hour traffic. The first signs was about 10 mins prior to blowing up on my regular commute to work. I had noticed that off throttle downhill there was a bit more engine braking than usual. Knew something was up at that point. The engine let go 10 mins later downtown between 2 stop signs 3 blocks from the office. Gentle acceleration through the intersection, a couple of metallic clanks at maybe 2000rpm off boost and no power. Pulled her over, and can see metal and oil all over the street. Huge mushroom cloud of smoke but no fire, smoke subsided after 10 mins. Probably the most uneventful engine blowup in the history of engine blow ups.

The saddest part of the story was that the dump of oil was visible on that road for what felt like 10 years. As it’s my daily commute route the constant reminder was pretty painful.