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I had a boo boo today. Yep, it's time to make a phone call. Poor little 406 is no more.

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Ya gonna go Bigger for new engine?

What happened pro? To bad about the 406. What ya going to use now?

Just build another

632 Stroker.

Man I love your car pro. I like the way it sits and what you have done to it. That is my taste of muscle cars right there. Sucks about your engine man. What happened to it, just blew up or what? If you don't wan't it anymore you can just send the car to me and I'll fix it for you but don't count on getting it back.

Hmmmmmmm. Just like most flight recorders. Ends with the same two words!

Let me guess . . . hic-up on the laughing gas????

Oddly enough, I didn't have a burp, it just sort of went away. It was at 8200 and 130mph, when I went thru the traps it just started shaking like crazy and I could see all the track safety people running up to the barrier watching me go by. It was at that point I figured something was wrong. There was so much smoke, they all thought I was on fire! What I didn't know was, I was dumping oil and water all over the place and somehow it didn't get under my tires! As soon as I came to a stop, the safety crew was right at my door. If there was a fire, it would have been taken care of pretty quickly. It took them about 10 minutes to clean up my mess, and it was back to racing.

Now, as far as a replacement motor, and there will be one, if I go with MORE cubic inches I think I'll have to do some chassis work. My chassis guy is gonna take a peek at it and see if it will hold up to more. I like Prozzz suggestion though. I see Sonny's has a nice motor on sale.....hmmmm...... 762" and $56K, hmmmmm... we'll see......

Oh well, if racin' was cheap, everybody would be going fast. Tough luck about the motor pop. As the professional race experts say, "chit happens"!!!! Anxious to hear what ya put in the chebbie this time, let us know.

Whether you go Small Block or Big Block I vote for a stroker!! I love the idea of a LOT of metal moving around My next engine will be a BBF Stroker but I'll run what I have for now.

Good Luck with your future choice/build

Once again your string of luck continues. While you had catastrophic failure, you didn't lose the one thing you couldn't replace. Your life. Hell you didn't even hit the retaining wall. Its much less work to replace just the engine than to replace the engine and the whole right side. Its kinda suprising that you didn't have any indication during the run that something was gonna come undone like that. Maybe it was the car's way of telling you that it didn't like that engine.

As for your next endine....There's no replacement for displacement.

Originally posted by Tommycat
Once again your string of luck continues. While you had catastrophic failure, you didn't lose the one thing you couldn't replace. Your life. Hell you didn't even hit the retaining wall. Its much less work to replace just the engine than to replace the engine and the whole right side. Its kinda suprising that you didn't have any indication during the run that something was gonna come undone like that. Maybe it was the car's way of telling you that it didn't like that engine.

As for your next endine....There's no replacement for displacement.

Those are my feelings exactly, on everything you said. I am supprised also, but I could have been low on oil pressure and just didn't see it with trying to concentrate on everything else.

I could have been low on oil pressure and just didn't see it with trying to concentrate on everything else.

Yep, it's hard to concentrate on everything when you're sailing through the traps at Mach II with your hair on fire, so to speak. Those who haven't been there wouldn't undrstand, eh Pro?

Originally posted by Henry Rifle
Yep, it's hard to concentrate on everything when you're sailing through the traps at Mach II with your hair on fire, so to speak. Those who haven't been there wouldn't undrstand, eh Pro?

You got that right!