Wow thats cool, Free advice


Hell i need some of that


2sav

some fords will sometimes die but we always come back and kick more bowtie

Thats good, im stealing it for my sig line



2sav

so cause was??? Over-rev? Over heat? You're leaving me cliff hanging man!

dont know...i havent even gone into the garage since i took those pictures.

Now its time to get these motors back together and back in the boats.

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i would like to see a pic of the bearings
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I think there are remnants of bearings in this pic    Can you tell anything from that  ?

the final conclusion is that it spun a bearing.....

About what RPM were you running?

4800-ish and 67mph was the max gps speed before it let go

i think you can R&R that rod.....

last year I bought my first jet boat a 1978 nordic the guy took me out and ran the living hell out of it I bought it cause my wife vetoed the harley and what happens the second time out it dropped an exhaust valve basically looked like the same bottom end damage as yours plus a junk head so I spent all of winter last year and up to this point to build a nice 460 there is a company on ebay perfectcrank that sells bbf 6.605 h beam rods for 259 bucks with capscrew arp bolts and eagle sells the cast steel cranks for 209 bucks they claim good to 750 horsepower and a hell of a lot stronger than oe pieces.I have always been a chevy guy till this boat but after building this one I see bbf make big torque ive built hundreds of motors and seen this before several times by the look of the rod and bearing pieces there was a starvation,possibly momentary lack of oil and you lost a bearing first then the piston came apart cast pistons are weak ford used a forged piston in the truck motors and they are cheap i paid 31 bucks a piece for em and they are strong as hell to the other thing I found after tons of research is a main girdle that ties all the main caps together for about 70 bucks stops cap walk bbf are very prone to thismy problem with my boat now is what some of you guys called cavitation I havent got to thay problem yet hope this helps you man I know all to well how this carnage feels......

I was just checking out this engine damage when I noticed the Milodon oil pan.  I wonder if it was causing the same oil pressure drop mine experianced.   

the pan was repaired and put on the new motor (thanks tom!) and i dont have any oiling issues. that motor was a junk yard motor we threw in a boat and put the pedal to the metal for several laps with no mercy. it didnt stand a chance.