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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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I would absolutely agree with this.
Most road course LT1 failures that we've seen have been Camaro wet sumps. Many of them run at Daytona or other tracks with high speed high sustained G force turns which starves the factory wet sump oiling system.