Here's for you carnage loving sicko's entertainment LOL! Well after two years on the stock block (knowing I was on borrowed time) you can add me to the books of those who have snapped a couple stock rods. Sure was a sick feeling when it happened but at least I was close to home. Made a nice pull from one traffic light hammer down hard. Pulled hard and sweet just like it has for two years. Next light was very moderate acceleration, put it in 3rd, started to slowly lower the throttle to the floor loading up the motor and around 3600 rpm it sounded like you lost 6 out of 8 cylinders all the sudden, then a shuttering, then a very low frequency BOOM! Then came a HUGE plume of blue smoke behind me then the sickening sound of metal flying like hail hitting a tin roof. Shut off immediately and got pulled over. I knew what happened especially after I noticed oil gushing out on the ground. Luckily this happened just a couple miles from home and I managed to get a roll back to get me fairly quickly. Got her up on stands at the house and of course no surprise to find a hole the size of my fist below #8, a smaller hole around #6 and a split block along the pan rail on the passenger side. Pulled the valve covers and absolutely no metal of any kind make it up to the heads. Oil is just a clean as can be. I did not have any metal in the SC or manifold. No spark plugs were damaged either. I did not pull the heads though. Looking though the intake ports all the valves seem to not have sustained any damage. Lost sleep for a couple nights agonizing over what choice I needed to make to get going again. I had thought about getting another complete stock 4.6 off Ebay with 17k miles but I'm going to keep this car a long time so I don't want to go through this again. I finally decided after all I've done to my car it deserved the B326 which will allow me to grow up to 1000HP should I decide to which is way more than enough for streetability. For right now to keep costs down I'm going to hold on to my M90 kit that is only two years old. I should see 500ish at the tire with this motor and my mods including Snow Meth. In the future I'm sure I'll get bored and upgrade to another more powerful F/I system. It sure will be comforting to know though that I will already have a bottom end to handle virtually anything I throw at it for a non tracked street convertible.
To save some cash with Brenspeed i got disassembly down to the trans to engine bolts and the two motor mount bolts and she's out. Got a transport company pickin her up Thursday morning for delivery at Brenspeed Thursday afternoon. I'd love to do this job myself but I just don't have the time anymore nor the space. I'm going to be eating beans and rice until December to pay for this but it will be worth it!
To save some cash with Brenspeed i got disassembly down to the trans to engine bolts and the two motor mount bolts and she's out. Got a transport company pickin her up Thursday morning for delivery at Brenspeed Thursday afternoon. I'd love to do this job myself but I just don't have the time anymore nor the space. I'm going to be eating beans and rice until December to pay for this but it will be worth it!