Thanks guys.
I don't know what to do. See it wasn't exactly stock, I mean stock block, but that's not what broke. Well ok it did when the rod went flying through it. At least that 's my belief right now, only pulled the heads. May have a bent valve or two. A hole punched in both sides of the pan, hole in the block. SRP pistons, SRP I beam rods, Eagle crank, canton pan. Hope my new comp cam is ok, not counting on it.
I went too big, should have left it the way it was. Before I had dinky 1.90/1.60 heads, a small comp cam .512 lift, performer II intake, and a little paxton 1220SL. Well I got carried away put the bigger heads, bigger cam, bigger intake and of course a big ass Vortech YS with meth! The previous combo dynoed at around 460/421 to the wheels at 5200 rpm and ran 10.60's @ 125 on a consistent basis. So......I think I was making a wee bit too much with the new combo. I didn't bother pulling the shortblock for a going over. Hindsight now for sure.
I could throw a stock shortblock back in, hell I could get my old 86 motor back for 50 bucks, but then I won't be able to use anything I have. I could buy that nice new stocker for 700 bucks but it's all 50oz and then I need to replace all my nice and expensive SFI 28oz stuff.
Bigger always means never good enough.
It's obituary will be in the paper next week.
