I was on my way to Richmond yesterday to get some new shoes and decided to stop and check my tire pressures. When I get out of my car, all I hear is "clunk clunk clunk clunk."

So I think maybe it's my engine-lid prop rod. It has fallen off before and clunked around but this time it's nowhere to be found. I pull it onto the lift at work and get under it; still clunking. Seems i have broken a rod. I limped it home where it sits now. Running it for a year with burnt up valves and no 3rd cylinder compression probably didn't help.

So to make the best out of a bad situation, I'm thinking of blowing it up in a glorious, smoke-filled, videotaped display. I need ideas.