It's Dead - Autopsy 080308
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fook me, thats a laot of swarf went into the engine

oh well, no real harm done as it was only a mule and not a thoroughbred!

yes exactly ian , that ws the cheap way to find that mistake ,paul ,imagine if youd built a stonking turbo engine and it locked up and took out the turbo too!!

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

Oops, well you live and learn along the way........

Yes I'm a twit.

All because I was in a hurry to prove the code. I cleaned it up with the air line as best I could but the cutting fluid was holding it back I suppose.

Loads more came out after the above photo was taken after I sloshed a load of detergent around inside.

Just hooked up the Megasquirt on the ignition and it fired up straight away. So earlier doubts about any ECU related probelms can be discounted.

Manifold is now ready to fit, so I should have it running on the Siamesed code in the morning.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Blimey!!!!

I'll not be too concerned about mine any more - but i will make sure I double flush out the manifold!!!!

Got MED to split the pistons and rods this afternoon. Rods are fine. This is the state of the gudgeon pins.



It looks like water damage/corossion, but they have ben kept in the dry since we took the engine apart. So I'm assuming this happened some time ago.

When I first built the engine the pistons/rods seemed fine.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

oooofffff!