My LT1 Race motor blown up.

 

This is the car. 95 Trans Am. Circle Track Asphalt.

 

Nice did ANYTHING on the bottom end live through that?

 

Just screw a breather in there, no biggie

No really what let loose? Nice car, I always wondered how our cars would fair on the round ones.

-Dustin-

 

Not much left. We think a rod broke. Took another with it and a couple pistons. Crank is junk. And massive chunks out of the block. There were peices of the pistons in the intake.

 

Yikes, hopefully there wasn't any damage to the heads.

 

Heads were fine, just a couple valves need replaced. Anyone have a cheap block laying around let me know. I have another one for now, but I need a another backup.

 

what state to you live in? i have a block but i am not willing to ship it. to much of a hassle

 

Ahh, it's just oil pan failure....throw a new pan on it and go!!!!

 

How competitive is a LT1 in asphalt circle track? I would imagine it would be Gen I SBC dominated like the dirt track stuff.

 

do u have more pictures? i like how it looks w/o the hatchglass, want to see more pictures of that

 

Any idea why it blew up? Are you atleast running an accusump on it to try to keep the motor alive?

 

90% of the time rod failure is not the actual root cause of the problem, you need to look really carefully at your other parts to come to an accurate conclusion once you have the motor torn down.

 

It's really hard to tell what let loose. I didn't get it out of gear quick enough and it kept spinnin. Looks like a blender in the oil pan. It was basically stock, due to the rules. With a custom cam for higher RPM.

I am in PA. Yeah, shipping a block sucks with the weight!

 

We ditched the hatch. and have Five Star front and rear bumpers.