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Originally Posted by JANNETTYRACING
You are absolutely correct the Road coarse is the ultimate challenge for any engine.
Looking at your engine I would bet my career on it that there was oil starvation to those rods as they are the most vulnerable which causes the bearing to grab hold of the crank and break the rod.
A dry sump oiling system would have prevented this failure.
Ted.
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Well as you are more aware than most it is so difficult to determine the INITIAL cause of an engine failure but I have been told TED that I can break a hammer in a sand box so you may very well be right. The pistons were in pieces and the rods were twisted on the ones that were still in the engine and the failure came after I de-accerlerated VERY QUICKLY into a set of twisties on a road course. I windowed the block in two places and I even damaged the oil pan when the engine pieces came apart and hit the inside of the pan. This is the MARIO ANDRETTI effect. He either won or you wound up with pieces at the end of the race.