I was driving my car like i'd stolen it on monday, and the blower belt came off. it also stalled. When I fired it back up it sounded not good. I thought the flywheel had come loose. But I pulled out the gearbox, and the bottom end has sh1t itself. I've not pulled it down yet, but I think I may have broken a rod bolt.

Keep us updated with pics and info.

Yikes. It takes a lot to break an A-series engine.

L-series ftw

This calls for an L series conversion,

hell no! everytime I kill an engine I learn things to do differently on my next build. I'm getting lots of practice with them
I could always stop thrashing them so hard...yeah right!

why not source an a15 get an a12 crank and e15 turbo rods to make a reall rev happy 1300cc
you wont bust the e15 rods there beefy as
of course itll be less cc but rev alot harder? and more reliably with a rod/stroke ratio of around 2:1
204.1 deck height
140.15mm length rods from e15 with 40mm crankpin mod
(original rods on a15 are 133mm and sr20de r 136mm!!!)
2.0 rod stroke ratio F1 anyone?
1304cc
77mm bores

Some people just never learn

E15et's are a bit thin on the ground here. I gave my last engine (before this one)(A15) an absolute hiding, and it was a piston that gave up. if it was a rod bolt, it must have been fatigue. The motor i've just killed was my original a14, which saw lots of excessive revs. Although I have a peice of crap tacho with shift light that only works sometimes. (although on that day it had been doing what it was suposed to) So it's not inconceivable that maybe the shift light never lit up, and it revved into oblivion. (I was doing dough nuts in 2nd gear) it's also possible that when the belt came off the sudden extra stress on the rod of having to suck the charge in rather than having it blown in may have over taxed the bolts and led to a failure. especially if the motor was pulling huge revs. Although that is purely conjecture at this time.

Just out of interest sake, what revs were you pulling?

And off topic, what gearbox and diff are you using to keep up with the power. Here in South Africa guys are breaking the bakkie 5 speeds by just using A15 and a bit of power upgrades (Port and gasflow,cams, sidedrafts, etc).