My Son Cory & I took my Road Runner down to Monster Mopar. Had a Great Time!! Josh, you put on a great show!! I ran the Gen 3 Hemi Shootout Class & 11.0 Shootout. Ran a best of 11.05 @ 121.7 for the weekend. Saturday, I ran 11.15, 11.18 & then an 11.34. MPH on the last pass was off by 1.5 mph. I got back to the pits & pulled the plugs. They looked a little lean, so I added fuel. My last pass of the day was the first round of 11.0 Shootout. Did burnout, staged & launched...1st, 2nd then to third, all seemed ok till about 6200 or so, the motor all of a sudden felt like it was on a limiter & before I could react, BOOM!! Thankfully I didn't oil down the track. No holes in the outside of the block, but it wouldn't turn over. So, had no clue what the damage was.

When it happened, my Son went to Rick Gorski's & Bondo Bob's pits to see if he could get some help. The staff at IRP towed me to my pits & both Bondo Bob & Rick were right there at my pit as soon as I got there. Bondo went & got a crew to help me get my car on the trailer, as I didn't have a winch. I can't thank them enuff!! And, then Rick came by a little later with some Beer's & hung out and B.S'd.

Well, I got it home & got the heads off. I hurt it good. As you can see in the picks the #1 rod, piston & cylinder wall is gone. I have no clue what caused the chain of events & guess it really doesn't matter. Cylinder head is beat up pretty good & there was junk sucked into every cylinder. The biggest problem now is finding a replacement 6.1 block, now that Chrysler is no longer making them.

I have a mess on my hands!!

I can relate.I'm sorry to see this kind of damage.
Keep your head up!
John

Steff, sorry to hear your worst fear happened. Hoped the block was still good. Dang. Sorry to see. Great seeing you and your cool son. I'll keep my eyes and ears open for a block.

Bummer!!

Maybe the intake contacted the piston? Is that really a hollow valve stem?

Sorry to hear it.

Looks like thin cyl wall in pic but could have had slight detonation and broke piston.
If bottom end of block is good send it out get darton sleeves in it.
Head looks like it can be fixed.
Good luck with what ever you do as I loved that car/engine set up.

not good at all Steff ! you were so close to your 10.99 pass
no problem on the help thats what friends are for

i will keep my eye out also on a 6.1 block

good seeing ya again

Bob

Wow, that sucks.

That's one of my favorite cars on the board too!

Sorry Steff. I will keep an eye out for a 6.1

Major BUMMER Steff... hope it isnt as bad as it looks...
time for some sleeve replacement... a little touch up
on the head and your almost there... good luck buddy

sorry to see that problem for a racer. You will make it back. Good Luck.

can the 6.1s blocks be sleeved ?

I'm assuming that the pistons where stock cast hypertutectic(SP?) pistons, if so then I would assume the valve broke off and destroyed(shattered) the piston, the wrist pin holed the cylinder wall and the rest is history Sorry for your loss. Aren't all the 3G Hemi blocks aluminum? If so sleeving it, as long as there is no damage to the main webs, deck or exteranl cracks in the cooling system, should be easy for a competent automotive machine shop. I like and use ductile iron sleeves in cast iron blocks, I'm not sure if there compatable with aluminum blocks

Ouch that is not good...I fell your paint trust me.

Steff..my condolences on the carnage! Glad you didn't get hurt! Best of Luck with getting it back together!

is the valve spring on that valve still look good? i hear alot about breaking behives

that hallow stem is really hallow

....Nice


JB Weld ?

Steff It was great to finely get to meet you this weekend.It really hurt to see you break.Like the car hope you are able to to find everything you need to get it back together soon.I will keep my eyes open for a block.

OUCH! I can relate. at least you got some good runs out of it. This one didn't get one track pass.

..do I see stock rods in there..?