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We’ve been on a roll lately with some wild photos of destroyed engines and it was only a matter of time until we would run one that was killed by the ultimate liquid death sauce, nitromethane. This engine mets its end at the NHRA race in Brainerd, Minnesota this year. It was making 8-10,000hp in the front of Bob Bode’s nitro funny car until it wasn’t and the results of that failure are shown here through the lens of bad ass photographer Mark Rebilas. Mark is usually the guy getting the insane action sequences but this is an aftermath deal. While it is all busted and broken, some of the shots of the shrapnel left behind are down right artistic looking.
While most of the reciprocating assembly is complete junk, the block will be welded up and put back into service. If you ever get the chance to check out used nitro engine blocks you’ll be amazed by the amount of patchwork and/or repair that have been done to most of them. Like human beings, nitro race blocks don’t get out of this thing alive. Note the thickness of the block and then think about the forces involved in blowing this massive ass hole in the bottom of it.
Mark’s photos pretty much speak for themselves. The Chevy and RB Chrysler blocks with the bottom blown out are in classes by themselves but this nitro hemi that met its maker is in a price category all its own when compared to the production iron blocks we have showed you before!
