Deconstructing Chris' Motor - Part 1

As many of you know, Chris hurt the motor pretty badly at Honda Day this past Sunday. Within the next 2 weeks he will be rebuilding and getting ready for Spring Nationals at Englishtown. We would like to share our progress with all of you for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, we've had many inquiries as to what happened and what will be remedied. We would like this blog to serve as a means to answer your questions. Secondly, we feel that in this industry you must constantly learn in order to grow. We are more than happy to share our knowledge and findings with you all.

In yesterday's blog we discussed what happened on the run at Honda Day. Here is a great picture sequence of the run.
















That brings us to yesterday, Chris got the car completely apart last night and after inspection of everything it seems as though it was simply fatigue failure. The rod seemed to have let go. As we have mentioned previously, this motor has been through the last two previous seasons with NO problems. The poor thing simply gave out! Along with the rod problem, the piston hit the head and collapsed the chamber. So, long story short, we need an entirely new engine!





Chris was here till 2:00 am last night going over everything with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that this does not happen again. He really feels as though it was just a parts failure and that the engine had a long and happy life :) This short block had about 200 hits on it between the track and the dyno testing over the past 2.5 seasons.

Next up for Chris and the car are a few late nights, some overnight shipments and most definitely a few more records coming up. Stay tuned for more info on the next stage of the build!

By the way - To see ALL of our photos from Honda Day follow this http://nrgtechracing.com/galleries.htm