Well dam, carnage fun.
I am back . Back from vacation, got lots to show ya, lots more smiles for everybody.. and with broken bits.. Enjoy and celebrate.No really i got my moneys worth out of it.
Let's take a minute to line this one up, last night, retorqued head to ever insistent loss of coolant every third drive.Refill empty radiator (wtf) had this problem since i put it in and thought, well it may be seeping through the multilayer thick head gasket for rsi(thickest i could get).
..I thought it looked fine, but i never took it to a machine shop to have anything checked, did it all myself, i just used the dial bore gauge and micrometer and plastigauge, not ever considering doing a sonic check of the thickness of the bore, even though it was a D, E, E, D block, first i have ever seen with this large of a factory volvo bore. I thought cool.. More cc right.
Well what had happened was,I got a call that a McClaren f1 was at a local meet talking some chit(my fav car of many) so i had to go see how mine would do against him. I told Lord athlon to hold my die grinder and i told texas 740 to hold my pack of resistors, Scott Dingleand Taro uterburger underpants and the bois, had just got done installing stickers on their tires, and had told me to spam the web with their attitudes, i refused. So I went figuratively riding- after re torquing head studs to 100ft lbs, and car idled to dry new header paint. (How much paint does stock support you may wonder-well not this much, as luck would have it)I drove out of my neighborhood, and to first stop light, sat at red light, waited, went on green, and made it about 600 ft down that road for a total of a 1/4 mile ,and it BLEW apart, I mean a few seconds of shrapnel exploding and bouncing everywhere! I was driving about 20mph in VACUUM taking in the fresh air of the awesome evening we had that evening, as soon as i heard the SHTF, i turned the key off and coasted to next turn lane and parked, tuned on hazards and prayed for the best, i found my cam gear about 50 feet back on the roadway, along with half a stock volvo wrist pin. Er oh. No mo gewd.
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The pieces that proved the block was cracked, rust and cracks on the broken pieces of inner bore of block.