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Got the pistons/rods out of the old motor last night. Here's a look at the piston from cyl1:





Rings seem smooth but the crown (?) of the piston obviously has some damage around it. The marks on the piston line up with the marks on the cylinder wall, so that piece fo spark plug obviously got stuck alongside the edge of the piston/wall, did some damage and then either disintegrated or flew out the exhaust.

Little scuffing around the skirt, all cylinders have this but this one is about 10x worse than the others (due to the scraped cyl walls I'm sure):


Rod bearing on #1, a few others have small wear marks like this and the black around the one edge but for 25k miles of 550-600whp I'm thinking they are not too shabby!






Here's cyl 4 for comparison, smoove as buttah







These rods are just manly (not Manley, but MAP Ultimate Duty!):




Next to a 2G DSM rod for beef comparison. These rods are built for doing some epic power!