Initial Diagnosis, Fritz is hurt... Options

[nine14cats]

We just looked at the motor in Fritz. We found the belt in the dual distributor broken and one of the disty caps had evidence of arcing. Leakdown shows cylinders 4 and 5 have 100% leakage. You can hear the air rushing past the exhaust valves! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

In a word....fuck... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) (Sorry for the language, I'm a little sad and more than a bit frustrated).

It would appear that I either have bent valves in cylinders 4 and 5 or broken rings and / or pistons.

Can a distributor failure in one of the two disty's lead to such a top end failure? I was driving very well at Thunderhill when this happened. I did not miss a shift or over rev the motor. The funny thing was that I was actually feeling smooth about everything.

I cannot describe how bad I feel.

We're having another cup of coffee and the motor will be dropped in about 2 hours. We will tear down the top end over the next few weeks and fix it.

Major bummer.

Bill P.