My brothers piston (non diesel)

Chevy1925

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So my brothersw rzr decided to puke all its oil out in the dunes about a month ago and we couldnt find/see where it blew it out. no visable cracks in the head or cylinder. So we pulled the motor out (not a fun process in these) and tore it down. Head looks great but i cant see if/where it went through the headgasket.
Pulled the cylinder off the pistons and heres what i found.

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To give a bit of back history, we tore the motor down almost a year ago to put rzr s cam and pistons in it. has about 30 hours on it since. all we can figure is it got too much detonation from bad gas or something though im not 100% sure on the tuning S&S did on the ECM. May have to throw a A/F gauge in after we get it back together. rings were all gapped properly and everything was to polaris spec. We got lucky though that the peices stayed in the piston and didnt touch the cylinder walls, hell the cylinders still have all the hone marks!

Kinda has me worried about mine. ill be pullin mine apart after this dune season to check the pistons out and add a spinny thingy :D
 

jraymer

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Ouch that sucks. I remember not running high enough octane fuel in my banshee and burning the hell out of the pistons in that out in the middle of the dunes. Thats kinda crazy that chunk just broke off. Not burned or melted?
 

Chevy1925

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Ouch that sucks. I remember not running high enough octane fuel in my banshee and burning the hell out of the pistons in that out in the middle of the dunes. Thats kinda crazy that chunk just broke off. Not burned or melted?

na. cant tell on the plugs either as they are oil soaked from the oil it was blowin through. we ordered a set of weisco's instead of stockers cause ive yet to hear of them doin this. Never seen a piston do this either thats what baffles me