exciting to finally tear this motor down and check out what i believed the ring-lands to have butted and broken some ring-lands. to prove this we would have to see spotless pistons and broken lands only.
its nice to see we tore it apart and found exactly that, broken lower lands, from butting and perfect piston tops, people are also right about gen3 rods bending at 650+ because every single one of my rods is bent slightly lol. it seems like the rod is heaver material wise on the one side and thats the side they bend towards, hard to explain but they all bent around equally in the same direction bowing out in the center twoards the flexplate, rear or the motor.
should get my gen4 rods and pistons tomorrow and ill be opening up the gap on the rings and throwing them in.
it was neat to see, since pistons 1-3 broke, we checked the gap on them and they were like 18-19, then checking the gap on the other pistons that did not break, some were 24... just re confirming what people say about when you are pushing them you need to open the ring gap, but honestly it took bending the rods to break a ringland on this gen3. so i would say 600 is your limit probably might even be slightly bending rods at that power level.
