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Originally Posted by aschen
Front tire life goals.
Looks alot more fun working on actual race car vs a street based track car, still sorry for your cranky crankshafts
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True, with body removed it is easy access to everything.
The first engine that failed was at the 2018 Long Beach race, saw that motor disassembled today.
See video of the snout snapping off as I short shifted into 5th on the front straight.
So far I've been lucky to always have coasted off track and not mess up a session for the other racers.
This engine had been rebuilt years ago and ran well for many years.
It had a heavy Scat crank 57lbs, could of aged out or maybe a balance issue.
The block and 6 inch rods were still good.
Had 2 types of pushrods, bent and broken lol.
Pistons and valves did touch so going to replace them too.
The heads are aged out, one was cracked near a head stud but not related to the crank failure. They were Brodix 11, old spec heads for 360 sprint cars so no big loss.
The heads were why it never made more than 560hp on the dyno.
Dropped off the second engine (the one we pulled out yesterday) and should know soon what happened to that one.
Hopefully the heads are good on that engine, it made good power at 630hp.
If I'm lucky the big parts will be just a crank and pistons.