Here's sum nastay 5hp briggs pictures. It came from our go-kart racing motor.






this is what is left of my brothers 5hp briggs rod and piston! he races go-karts like i use to. pretty nasty carnage huh?

 

You need to be careful posting pics like that.

That looks just like the secret Ford PowerStroke "Variable Displacement" Connecting Rod.
Their legal department might be contacting you shortly.





What RPM did it achieve before grenading?

 

Looks like the crank chewed on the rod a little bit.

 

we had the kart on the stand and we were messing with the motor because it wasnt running right the night before, well here is our problem. It was about 4000 RPM's, wasnt WOT yet.

 

Well with some duct tape and some bailing wire

 

I guess it would be real mean to post that last pic over on the GM boards cause it actually looks more like a DuraMax rod,,,,,,,,,

with a caption like............ "Look what happened to my new D-max"

I have a buddy that used to race karts and them guys were just as serious as the guys in NASCAR

 

Oh, brings back memories. We broke those 5 HP BS engines like that every day back in high school. We did things to those that shouldn't even be mentioned. We had crankshafts coming out of the crankcase, and a few really good explosions. Good ole Ag deparment.

 

I saw one briggs that had a horstman i-beam rod let the end cap go and sent the rod up through the block, up the sleeve (out side of the motor) , and stopped at the head. The rod was still connected to the piston, sticking straight out the side of the cyl., just under the head . I asked him how he do that? He just said he ran to high at just over 10G. I should have taken a pic of it