J-SMITH69

took my ls block to bare bones, got some niiiiiice solid pitting and wear marks on the main and rod bearings.

chhhyes :-p

Reddy

for some reason rod bearing damage isn't quite as exciting as total motor destruction

J-SMITH69

well i did crack a sleeve and break 4 pistons... i'll post all the pics.

and i did manage to heat seize almost all the cam cap bolts into the head on the exhaust side. i wonder if it got hot

accordepicenter

hmm maybe between the piston carnage and the sleeve crack maybe some of the metal got into your oil and embedded/pitted your bearings... what did your oil pan look like?

J-SMITH69

im sure something got into the oil, thats what did it...

but yea the oil in the pan...i couldnt see any sparkles.

djfob

ouch is this your second motor?

accordepicenter

wierd... this is the second time youve blown ringlands on the boosted motor right? Maybe somthing is wrong with your setup too, like leaning out or you need to pull out more timing?

J-SMITH69

2nd set of 4 that ive done in ya
but this time the sleeve cracked

the first time i broke them my tune was up to 11psi
the boost gauge is gay and changes at different alitiudes, so it read 8psi so i got out and turn it up and was running 14+ for one night (when it was really chilly out so it was makin more power too)

that broke em the first time.

2nd time either they just broke for whatever reason, or i put the pistons in bad and messed up the oil ring, you could see where oil was gettin onto the piston and the oil really leans it out...

hopefully the 5 liter will withstand the kind of abuse i put on motors.

Jeter2Karaffa

ouch does not looks good... sorry to hear it man