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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:02 PM Reply With Quote
i don't think you wanted to do that..















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wheelsinsteadofhooves

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:11 PM Reply With Quote
errr.....
that your doing??

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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:12 PM Reply With Quote
nothing to do with me, just saw it and thought some people might wanna see the carnage!





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flak monkey

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:16 PM Reply With Quote
:o



Any hints as to what happened?





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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:17 PM Reply With Quote
I *think* the bottom end let go


more pics here: http://webpages.charter.net/trotter/Seth/

believe it's a nissan 1.8 turbo that was in a rwd drift car..

[Edited on 7/3/05 by ned]





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DarrenW

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:20 PM Reply With Quote
I wonder where the fouth piston ended up???? Still in orbit?

I assume it was a race engine? What type / car / race??






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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:25 PM Reply With Quote
4th piston, hmm

not here:







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Hellfire

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:39 PM Reply With Quote
OMG

If that's what they mean by a blow job then I'm sorry, but I don't want one!








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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 12:45 PM Reply With Quote
just found this:

quote:

What Happened......Machine shop didnt bore enough for the forged pistons, so when the pistons heated up they all seized to the walls simultaneously. this happened at dragway 42 in ohio. ran a 13.7......but up until it blew he was about half car behind an evo VIII that pulled a 12.8. It was a well built setup with a 75 hp direct port....

this was a freak accident that should have been avoided. machine shop did not check clearances on the piston walls before returning the block back. They did not cover the damage or offer any type of reimbursement. 55mm tb, ross forged pistons on stock rods and a bunch of other bolt ons. great way to lose 3 grand in a few minutes

we did a 1500 mile break in on the block before we ran the giggle juice. Everything was kosher, even ran the juice a lot (think 4 or so bottles.) but.... all those runs were on a 1/8 mile track, hardly giving the pistons enough time to heat and expand.

It was one hell of a fireball.........and an oilly mess on the track. **** happens.......







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mookaloid

posted on 7/3/05 at 02:27 PM Reply With Quote
Ouch
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donut

posted on 7/3/05 at 02:31 PM Reply With Quote
I thought that's what happened to your PUG engine after you were trying to keep up with my MX5 on Sunday





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ned

posted on 7/3/05 at 02:44 PM Reply With Quote
no, that was the first time i found the limiter while spinning in 1st @ 6500rpm





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omega 24 v6

posted on 7/3/05 at 10:12 PM Reply With Quote
As a newbie i take it from the comments that this is not repairable
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drmike54

posted on 8/3/05 at 05:40 PM Reply With Quote
Dragway 42

I haven't been to dragway 42 in 10 years. It was built in to 1960s as a 4 lane NASCAR sanctioned drag strip. Last time I was there the terack surface was pretty bad.





Started Welding the chassis!!!!

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Spyderman

posted on 8/3/05 at 05:54 PM Reply With Quote
Ned, any link to more info on this?

To me it doesn't look like a seizure. There are no score marks on pistons!

I wonder if it has water injection by any chance?
Looks remarkably like an hydraulic'd engine to me!
Pure speculation, but either way expensive!

Terry






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David Jenkins

posted on 8/3/05 at 10:50 PM Reply With Quote
Bet it was a loud bang...

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