Broken engine!!!
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Not mine!

This is (was) a thin-flange S-Block race engine that did the unthinkable, and took out a lot of nice parts...

O My!

Manchester Minis

crazy!

Team Racing

i think you have alittel engine problem.

ouch!!

A bit more than a rebore needed there

BTW - I took my buddy VTEC Pete out for a spin this weekend, and even though I am running her in, he gave it a name, the "Brocket"...cause I'm a brocket maaannn, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah....

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if something is worth doing..........

sell it to the guy on ebay who's selling the block thats been welded. maybe he can fix it!!

At least it broke in style...lol

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

yeah, bit of weld and you can sell that on ebay.

actualy i like it that way. The art of power. Or something like that. I could have that in my living room instead of an ugly dead cactus.

jesus! what a mess.

Thats Fantastic!!! 8-)

Just curious as to the big end nuts that are on there, main bearing nuts dont look too clever either.

Whats the chances that it let a main bearing go first??


I'll buy the main bearing caps if they are still ir workable condition

WOW, Cracked like a walnut.

Bit of fibreglass and hot glue gun and itll be runnin like new.

This is what happens to engines that are older than 30yrs having stupid power and being cained.

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Pmsl... I might be mistaken, but those big end nuts look like nylocks!!!

Just curious, but all performance engine build specs tend to specify that the centre main cap should be braced.... The centre main here still seems to be well attached.

Edited by CR# on 31st Aug, 2007.

S bottom end,

I have seen the rod bolts with (high grade) nylocks before.

I bit of welding and some red paint he'll get $600 for it on ebay.

just what you need to happen when the flywheel is spinning between your legs...

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

i wonder what noise it made when it let go??

I bet the AA man said that the alternator an battery were gone and thats why it wouldn't start!!!

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wouldnt you start cursing if sumone had crapped all over your car?

Solid or runny?

Sober or Rat arsed?

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Is this an in line engine or transverse.

My new theory is that the engine has been run at high ish rpm without a crank damper for a prolonger period of time, the crank has fatigue cracked at main bearing number three, resulting in the broken halfs of the webs climb over each other bending the crank and ripping the block in two. Number one and two main bearings still intact yet half of the casting missing on one of the ceter bearing studs, so dont see the block as being the intial failure.

All I can say is, the bloke used a thin flange block, and probibly no crank damper.

Edited by Sprocket on 1st Sep, 2007.

I'd say that was a quite feasible explanation personally.