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Originally Posted by juanmedina
Thanks! that's one of my options building the next motor myself. My car wasn't my DD, I have reliable honda that takes the everyday abuse . I agree asking for 600whp from a 4 cylinder motor is just too much.
I will take the motor apart this weekend if the weather is good, I hope at least one of the head is good.
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After going through two catastrophic rod failures myself, I can tell you your heads will be fine although your valves in the broken cylinder are likely to be bent. Your crank is probably destroyed depending on how long it ran post break. Pistons may or may not be ok again depending on how long it ran after it broke. The two motors that I had break, both sets of pistons could have been reused but were nicked up so I just got new ones. One crank was ok, the other was not due to how it broke and how long I ran it afterwards