> G HANDS Wrote:
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> This to me looks like several issues. Ring gap and spacing are two I can
> identify off hand. It's hard to tell because everything blew up but it
> appears from looking at the head that the piston was hitting it. Check
> the stroke on that kit. It probably needs a base spacer to be correct.
> It looks like you can see the round imprint of the piston on the head.
>
> Anyway it's fucked, I would never run that bottom end again till I spilt
> the cases and cleaned it up. Why spend money on a iffy set up. Sucks,
> but you gotta do it right.
I would ad that it looks like it was ran for some time after the initial failure.