Here it is almost 3am and the engine is being replaced. It blew during a demo at the Hialeah stock car races tonight, halfway through the first turn and BAM. Take a look at the pictures.

No time to post them. Just check my photobucket gallery.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v249/freethinker41


-Sean

 

I bet they were cleaning up oil for a while after that. Looks like its time to drop a 2JZ in that beast.

 

It was only a matter of time.

 

imagine that.

 

Yea imagine that.....

And as far as '...only a matter of time' , Hrmmm, maybe you are alluding to the fact that the car burned oil at Ocala.

The reason it burned oil was because of a PCV valve that vents to the exhaust to create vacuum in the crankcase. Oil was sometimes able to get up the tube and then down into the hot exhaust and you know how it goes from there. Might explain how it magically blew an engine like 12 times at Ocala and then came back to life each time....

The failure turned out to be a broken piston. It's a pretty rare failure but I have seen pistons mysteriously let go. Once the piston went, the rod had a g--damn fiesta in there and you see what happened. I've got better pictures for later.
For now, off to the track!

-Sean

 

okay?

 

I <3ed that car in Ocala.

 

Fuck I was going to say the SAME thing..

Hell, I wanted it to happen at DD4. That thing sounds HORRIBLE. Not to mention BMW engines DO NOT boost well, and last.

 

au contraire...

I think it sounds wonderful....

 

hell yeah that thing was badass. you can only beat on a motor with so much power for so long. even ask mattback. ask him what happened to the enjuku car a day before bristol. check out some of their videos. it seems like they really dont give a shit about the motor, which makes the show that much greater.