What CAUSED THIS!?..
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OUCh!!!
my mates back pocket

this hurt him last year

motor 1380 649 stage 3 head

motor used in hill climbs

just been Rebuilt ran say 10mins on tick over.

guess!.............

the engine was installed upside and hydrauliced on oil

alex

AlexF

jeez! do tell..

/edit - arnt u supposed to run new builds for 20mins at 2500 rather than tickover?

Edited by Mike on 15th Mar, 2005.

some nutter with a sawn off shot-gun was jelous, so destroyed it.

thats wat my knowledge is telling me

wot was the area around the engine like when that happened!naughty

Someone forgot to torque up the big-ends?

rod bolt not torqued up maybe

Team Racing

very warm dave

very hot jimster

when it when bang!

the guy looked on the floor saw oil, shrapnell and the engine was still rotating clanking...................................................

he said, he just freeked out!


any more guesses!.....................................

will reveal all tomorrow.

if jim`s very hot , howabout he forgot to put the rod nuts on at all ??

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

nearly mark

some thing to do with the new ARP rod bolts

they did not break and they were torqued up correctley!

think about this one ..........................................................................................?

he oiled them first or used s rod bolts on non s rods or other way round .

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

How about fitted the wrong rod bolts I.E. Cooper S rod bolts in A+ rods ?

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

where the heads lined up with cutouts

love that straight cut scream!!!
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or didn`t seat the bolts in the rod

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

is any one going to tell us why?

love that straight cut scream!!!
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therefore when they seated into cut outs, caps would have rattled about a big bit !!

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

I did one of those on a 1450cc on the M5!

Oops!!

torqued the bolts with oil on them maybe?

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

The oval head of the rod bolt fouled the inside of the block?

for got to put bearing shells in?

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

CONGRATULATIONS to turboestate

The rod bolts weren?t lined up with the cut outs in the btm of the rod beams.
they were at 90 degrees out when he torqued them up

the wrench clicked off at the require torque, then the bolts settled in on start up an hey presto!

An expensive time consuming lesson

mind you hese a (fire man)

nowt wrong with fire men

but they don?t have too much practice, if at all building engines up

one to remember!

Whhhooooaaaaa, Hang the fuck on there... Am I missing something?



I say "Someone forgot to torque up the big-ends"

Jimster says "rod bolt not torqued up maybe"




And Jimster gets a silver star wheras I get a fooking bronze?


Am I the only one not seeing WTF is up here? Jimster must've given Ben an apple when he came into class this morning....

Edited by turbodave16v on 16th Mar, 2005.

SORRY Dave LOL

it was the way i Perceived it as the threads were rolling in over a few hours

you and jimster both get silver

as i stated the rod bolts were all torqued up to the required torque

(they were) for that moment in time!

but mr turbo estate hit it SPOT ON!

so in a sense you were ALL right

LOL

Edited by BENROSS on 16th Mar, 2005.

I put my money on the engine being red. That's just asking for trouble!

TRUE vegard