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**Grandpa** · 11-06-2013, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by DirtyD

Saw the pics on Facebook last night. Sucks.

Steve, centri blower at 10 psi on a stock motor. Made a tad over 700 whp. Piston just gave up. lol

Pistons don't just give up. A rod might, but a piston is either a bad tune/gas.

**DirtyD** · 11-06-2013, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT

Pistons don't just give up. A rod might, but a piston is either a bad tune/gas.

Humor. But obviously the piston looks to have taken the brunt of it.

**rriddle3** · 11-06-2013, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT

Pistons don't just give up. A rod might, but a piston is either a bad tune/gas.

Well, yeah they can. Had a skirt break on one once. Locked up the engine and scored the wall pretty good. Bad engineering on Ford's part. Of course it was in an '82 Escort sooooo...

**Grandpa** · 11-06-2013, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by rriddle3

Well, yeah they can. Had a skirt break on one once. Locked up the engine and scored the wall pretty good. Bad engineering on Ford's part. Of course it was in an '82 Escort sooooo...

**slim87gt** · 11-06-2013, 11:18 AM

We aren't real sure what happened. Either to much boost or defective pistons. Because everything else looks great