Originally Posted by air8

LOL. No not yet. We could see the broken skirt through the exhaust port, before pulling the back plate. But that's exactly what it looked like. Looked like someone had pulled the backplate without putting the piston up top. This engine never really felt right from day one, but there's no way it was broke from day one. The two little pieces of the piston were in the bottom of the case but never got thrown around.

I think it broke at the last race I used it. I was heading through a high speed chicane when a car from the next lane went off of a long double sideways and we hit head on. My car stopped dead, I wasn't even looking for it and I was full wood through there. The impact cut my front left a-arm part way and mashed the threads on the shock body, which unscrewed the shock body part way too. I just assumed the crank got shoved backwards a little and the piston contacted the backplate. There is one little nick in the backplate in a downward fashion. IDK.

It's all good now.