interesting photo, bent connecting rod

[Dave Hord]

It's right about now that I wish I still had the photos of the VW Turbo diesel
that had a valve head break off at about 4000rpm in 4th gear.

The piston split and crumbled...When we pulled the head it was absolutely
INCREDIBLE to see!

The valve head was still in there too...though, it took us a while to figure
out what it was.

-Dave
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Quoting Marc Swanson <mswanson at sonitrol.net>:

> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 13:27, JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
> > Ya, saw that one the other day, pulled the pic for my files, cool stuff.
> I've seen one bent worse than that, the first motor Dean Treadway blew up in
> his white Urq, amazing kink in it, rod stayed together though.
>
>
> Just got a picture from lister Jim Bush that is a bit more impressive:
>
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2EF52163
>
> apparently this one was from a 90q20v run dry on oil......  Less "cool"
> than the effect of too much HP but fun to look at the carnage
> nonetheless :-)
>
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