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      10-28-2013, 08:16 PM   #1
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rod bearings from a 59k mile motor

Car was in driver front incident with a curb that totalled the car. That is all the info I have on the history of this motor. These bearing were replaced with stock 702/703 bearing that were WPC treated. Also replaced the rod bolts with ARP ones (main reason for digging in). Will be running straight 40 weight Redline racing oil as this is going into a race car.

Here are the bearings. Cylinder 1 on the right, 8 on the left. Top bearings are on the bottom, bottom bearings on the top (just to confuse you). Bearing 4 has some serious wear on it.
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Car was in driver front incident with a curb that totalled the car. That is all the info I have on the history of this motor. These bearing were replaced with stock 702/703 bearing that were WPC treated. Also replaced the rod bolts with ARP ones (main reason for digging in). Will be running straight 40 weight Redline racing oil as this is going into a race car.

Here are the bearings. Cylinder 1 on the right, 8 on the left. Top bearings are on the bottom, bottom bearings on the top (just to confuse you). Bearing 4 has some serious wear on it.
Ouch. I'll add those to the photo registry. But before I do, when you labeled them 1-8 -- is that assembly order, or firing order?

Assembly order would be: 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, and 7&8 on the same journal.
Firing order would be: 1&5, 2&6, 3&7, 4&8 on the same journal.
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Firing order. 1 being left bank, 5 being right bank.
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Firing order. 1 being left bank, 5 being right bank.
3&4 have me confused then because they look like they were on the same journal -- as they look like they have almost the same wear. Just trying to dot the i's here...because I will probably pull the photo apart into separate bearing pics for the journal.

Do you have any separate bearing pics to send via email?
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The 2 banks have similar wear (top 4 vs bottom 4). Interesting how they are similar that way versus the cylinder on the opposite side of the same journal. 100% sure that is 1 to 8 bottom to top- I marked them on the way out.

I can take pics you desire.
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      10-28-2013, 11:26 PM   #6
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For 60k miles in an engine like this those bearings look really good. Easily if that rate of wear continued, the engine would see atleast another 60k. This engine did not blow up and was working fine I am sure.
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Looks terrible to me, but I know nothing about this stuff.
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      10-29-2013, 12:58 AM   #8
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For 60k miles in an engine like this those bearings look really good. Easily if that rate of wear continued, the engine would see atleast another 60k. This engine did not blow up and was working fine I am sure.
I'm not a mechanical engineer but I would not assume it normal for any street car to have bearing wear down to the copper after 60k.
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      10-29-2013, 03:24 AM   #9
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How did the plugs look?
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      10-29-2013, 03:54 AM   #10
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Also, how did the crank look?
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Plugs and crank looked fine.
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For 60k miles in an engine like this those bearings look really good. Easily if that rate of wear continued, the engine would see atleast another 60k. This engine did not blow up and was working fine I am sure.
Seriously, that deep into the copper is not something that is going to yield another 60k of service life. That one rod would spin that bearing well before any additional 60k miles. See, it's stuff like this which seriously lowers the level of discourse on this forum...sadly...although most likely a post like this one is simply done to stir up flames since the poster has multiple identities along with a tainted past on the M5board under other usernames. Apparently M3post does not mind people having multiple identities on this board since they are aware of the situation.
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Firing order. 1 being left bank, 5 being right bank.
Bank 1 is the right bank and 2 if the left
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Ouch that is some serious bearing wear there.
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For 60k miles in an engine like this those bearings look really good. Easily if that rate of wear continued, the engine would see atleast another 60k. This engine did not blow up and was working fine I am sure.
What is this based on? Sounds like complete garbage to me. If you look at the pictures that EAS has provided on their engine tear downs, I'm sure that oil analysis would have yielded a very high copper level. That is NOT fine.
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For 60k miles in an engine like this those bearings look really good. Easily if that rate of wear continued, the engine would see atleast another 60k. This engine did not blow up and was working fine I am sure.
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I'd love to see mine think they would be shocking
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Just wait till the fanboys flood this thread telling us this is all normal and that M engineers are god's gift to humanity and that anything with an M logo on it is a flawless model of perfection
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Another set of bad looking rod bearings. Must be part of that .05%...

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Bank 1 is the right bank and 2 if the left
My mistake.
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      10-29-2013, 02:11 PM   #21
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Yep... This post and EAS are just a bunch of trolls...
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Great another confidence inspiring thread.
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