At this year's NHRA event in Joliet, the boys from the Fram Top Fuel team once again had some "aftermath" pieces on display at their promotional tent.

Looks like this one was case of piston failure with the remains of the rod doing the rest of the work. Apologies for the mediocre quality iPhone pics.









Unrelated, but how could I not snag a picture of this. Car ran in low 10's in the A Stock Automatic class (Stock Eliminator).

 

damn

 

That billet block is so thick. Talk about catastrophic failure.

 

dayum

 

So you don't think it'll buff right out?

 

A little JB-Weld and it's come back together

 

Im i think they had a leak.

 

wow, good thing no one was hurt.

 

I am assuming piston head on the first pic, is that a retaining cable IN THE EVENT OF FAILURE that's attached? Wow.

 

That's a retaining cable in the event somebody at the promotional tent decides they want a free souvenir.

 

Aren't the pistons they use aluminum? Sheezus.

I've never seen a hole that big in a block before.

 

nice for fiesta pic

 

wow thats some engine carnage

 

This may be a stupid question, but is there a such thing as a forged engine block?

 

Now that's a hole.

 

The actual block itself? None that I know of. If there are, I'd like to know what it cost.

The 3rd and 4th pic are nuts.

 

Forging is essentially pounding a heated piece of metal with a hammer. In the case of commercial forging, the "hammer" is a specially shaped die powered by hydraulics. So since you're pounding on a piece of metal with a "hammer," you really can't forge something that has voids in it like an engine block does.

 

 

Thanks

 

I would assume that the piece of billet that block was machined out of was forged. So that would be a forged, billet block.

 

nucking futs.