The engine looks like it was built with good parts. I can't imagine the builder getting the ring gap wrong. I don't put it past the crank counterbalance and the whipping rod end to have caused all that damage to the bottom of the piston. There is a lot of force going on there. I found a piston completely sideways in a cylinder in one of my blow ups.Looks to me the tune up was off causing the rings to butt in the bore and the rod/pin pulled outta the piston and then carnage began. Q16 and these tuning issues are easier as Donnie is alluding to. I've seen an intake valve from one side of an engine end up over into another side of the engine and beat the crap outta everything in site. Burn a plug on one cylinder and it'll kill other cylinders, too. Dealing with that right now. Thanks for sharing the carnage. I hate/love to see it. I have rods and pistons out of a 2,240 cid Rolls Griffon that windowed the block. Can't call up Dart and order one of those. We welded 'em back together, and ran them in heat races. (never in the final, though.)Anyone else think the rings butted and pulled the pin out of the piston?
You know the saying, 'Up yours, sideways'? Well,... I can tell ya, it is possible.
