So, what did you do today?

[ShadowBolt]

Guess I will stay away from SRP for the next build. Mahle, here I come!!

No No No. DSS Racing.


JJ

[GlennCMC70]

Had good luck w/ Diamond pistons.

[David Love AI27]

What?? - wedding plans?? - huh???? Spill.

Like I said: "failure in the ring land"... she wasn't having any part of it... no big deal now I have more time at the track

[Fbody383]

Sounds like my wedding plan discussion with Sheri on Valentines Day

That's funny.

And don't talk to Rob Who... he doesn't even have a race car.

[donovan]

Got my pile of parts back from Richard last night... Brought a piston to work and gave it to one of our materials folks. She said that it looked like a fatigue induced failure in the piston ring land... Guess I will stay away from SRP for the next build. Mahle, here I come!!

So, you may have analyzed the piston as the failure point, and how it failed (fatigue)... But you have to ask yourself, why did it fail?
Staying away from SRP in the future is not the answer, SRP’s have lived a long life in my 331. That approach could put you in the same situation with a different piston manufacture.

Why did the piston fail? Ring lands will fail for many reasons... Over compression, detonation, size mismatch with cylinder wall... and a few others I can't think of right now. If that was my engine I would look further and try to find the reason before I blame the part or build another engine.

DD

[BryanL]

It's spring break. Spent the day taking my time getting ready, lunch with Sam, suddenlink run to clear up bill errors, hanging out at Sam's office then toys r us to exchange a few things. Got $350 worth of baby things and only spent $45 after sales, gift cards, and coupons! I call it productive!

Hope to see everyone at TWS with our new future CMCer.

Did I miss something? I thought April was the due date?

[Mrs. Crumpacker]

April 16th. The TWS event is a couple weeks after she arrives.

[marshall_mosty]

So, you may have analyzed the piston as the failure point, and how it failed (fatigue)... But you have to ask yourself, why did it fail?
Staying away from SRP in the future is not the answer, SRP’s have lived a long life in my 331. That approach could put you in the same situation with a different piston manufacture.

Why did the piston fail? Ring lands will fail for many reasons... Over compression, detonation, size mismatch with cylinder wall... and a few others I can't think of right now. If that was my engine I would look further and try to find the reason before I blame the part or build another engine.

DD

David,
Good point. I'm going to have the injectors sent off and cleaned/flowed. They are only about 4 hours old, but hey, something caused it... I agree that the fatigue failure was probably due to some other "issue" that hasn't been resolved...

I know for the next motor what the head size is, so I can ensure I keep the compression in check. I'm going to stay around 10.0:1 for the next motor to just be on the safe side...

[jdlingle]

All right DFW guys, hook a brother up with some race results!

[BryanL]

All right DFW guys, hook a brother up with some race results!

It's up on mylaps. Alford, Cody Powell, Procter and Mosty. Patterson in ai