No, this is NOT another "How do I hook up my catchcan?" post......

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A nice shot of my Craftsman compressor.



You know the hole is big when the ENTIRE rod comes out on to the track. The rod cap is somewhere in Bakersfield.



And to keep it drag racing related, here is how the 2004 race season went for me. One IDRC win, one NHRA Wally, four motors.

 

wow sorry to here

 

I hear TJ has a lot of brujos down there.

 

Tyler, have all your motors been the same problems? Do you know why it's happening? You've been through alot man, props for hanging in there!

 

Now you got your Wally Tyler. It was all worth it. hehe.

 

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people go a lifetime w/o one

 

hey atleast its not another tranny problem

atleast you had a chance to blow yours up , mine was stolen HAHha oh well thats life i guess . im sure you will be back on the track pretty soon , good luck this season

 

thats not a Pauter rod is it?

 

Nope, looks like crower?

 

let the bandwagon begin, crowers will fly out your block

 

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hope not , i just put a set in my motor

 

holy ****!! all the way through.. i didn't really look close at the first picture, because i was thinking maybe you hooked the breather lines to the rear of the valve cover, so in the second picture i thought there was something craftsman inside the block had to look again, sorry to see all the damage, the cost of racing i guess.. it would be so cool to have a wally! you should take a picture of it with all the blocks

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damnit!!

 

There has to be a reason you are breaking motors like that.

Case in Point: One of the cars I tuned...over 600whp, H22a.

Probably ran 20, 10second passes all season on the same trans and same motor.

Eagle Small Bolts...Why are you obliterating Blocks like that? I'll go off on a limb and say the tuning was good, since you work at AEM. What are you reving to?

Oil Pump Failure? There has to be a reason you Window'd 4 blocks in a season.

 

what are you running your rod bearing clearances at?

 

hang in there tyler, if u need someone to pit for u this season hit me up...i'll be free since i'm sitting this one out anyhoo, a wally *sighs, i can only dream of having one...i've been trying to find some on ebay but no luck...

 

wow thats some shitty luck what harmonic balancer are you using?
what do u think is causing the probs?
thats got to be close to
$20,000 in paper weights

 

well then tyler stop doing those SICK *** BURNOUTS THEN MAYBE you go down the track... hehehe tyler= prostock burnouts

 

wow....time to do some R&D

 

forgot what tyler said it was...its not a crower, it even has those new age custom bolts

 

Wish I could afford to blow up four engines
Hope you get the problem figured out before too many more engines go bye-bye.

 

I wish you the best Tyler. I hope you get another one together and get back on the track.

 

dam tyler....sorry to see that. how whp are you producing? we are 610+ and we arent blowing motors.....hope it works out!

 

Wow, thanks everybody for the advice/encouragement/concern/support. I think I've got it pretty well figured out. It's not as bad as it sounds initially. It wasn't four new, complete, built motors. But blowing four motors still really sucks.

H22 #1- Stock longlock. 15 psi, 400 hp, 8000 rpm. Just pushed it too hard. Broke one rod bolt, bent another rod like a horse shoe. It's actually pretty funny looking.

H22 #2- Built block, broke an AEM Hyper-Rod.

H22 #3- Used shortblock I bought off of Stephan Papadakis. It had about a season's worth of low 8 second runs on it. It was pulled for some reason, but he couldn't remember why. But I dropped it in because I wanted to race IDRC. Broke a Crower rod. I'm not really sure why, but the motor was pretty well used.

H22 #4- Broke another AEM Hyper-Rod

The AEM rods were manufactured by Saenz to AEM specs back in the mid-90's. I traded something for a set my co-worker had laying around. After I popped the first built motor, I just called up Saenz and had them make me two replacements.

Back when these rods were sold, Hondas that made 450hp were the cream of the crop. I found out after the fact that the rods were spec'd for 150 hp per hole. It was just a complete oversight on my part. When I put the first motor together, I never imagined I'd be making around 650 hp. Forged internals are forged internals, right? Except when you're doing stuff like I was, you're probably exceeding the intended limits of many off-the-shelf performance parts.

I'm still really pleased with my progress in my first season of racing in competition. I would have never expected to make as much progress as I did in one year. And to win a couple events (especially that Wally!), was just icing on the cake. The year started off really well, but I ended up chasing parts breakage and scrambling to make it to events for the second half. The motor came out 6 times and the tranny came out 5 times on top of that last year. I was racing a lot and driving it on the street as well. I'm going to take it easy this year. This hobby is expensive! I'm having a lot of fun though, so to me it's worth it.

Tyler

 

thats the way u have to look at it i guess.....have you looked into a saenz gear box??

 

i guess its safe to say u wont be using anymore aem hyper rods??