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Originally Posted by SYT_Shadow
Multiple ways to blow your engine due to incorrect install:
The car uses fractured rods. Installing them incorrectly is much easier than you'd think and guarantees a failure. A track buddy was talking about rebuilding his Pcar engine and did this, the engine blew 5k later.
Not properly seating the new rod bearing. There is a little groove, if not seated well kaboom
If you used stock bolts it is also possible the install seemed too much of a PITA and the shop ignored the correct procedure
All this, of course, assumes this is actually a rod bearing failure. It could be a mains failure that then took out the rod.
As always, one should be very careful when selecting who will install their bearings. I'd extend this to general work. I totally understand people driving hundreds of miles to see deansbimmer for example
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Thought it was hard to install fractured rods the hard way lol. When I changed my bearings with my mech it was pretty obvious how a cracked rod goes back together. Guess there's no shortage of stupid out there.
I got my money on mains failure that took the rod bearings out as collateral.