A short video from autocross today, lost it in the first turn and the car made a really strange noise and the motor stalled. Anybody heard it before or know what it was? http://www.billreynoldsracing....e.wmv


Modified by Billz01ITR445 at 12:05 AM 10/10/2005

 

WHOA! WTF was that?

Push in your clutch when you're going backwards. That's what your motor is telling you.

 

A motor COULDN't fire turning backwards, could it?

When you do push in the clutch, I don't see how it could be turning forward, because your front wheels appear to be going backwards.

 

the clutch was pushed in.

 

It looks to me like you push the clutch in between 0:09 and 0:10, maybe 0:09.7 or so. The car lurches right before the noise starts.

Does that sound right? That's all I can figure that lurch is, and it lines up with the weird sound.

 

yeah, that sounds about right.

 

Maybe the fuel pump starving?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chris F &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It looks to me like you push the clutch in between 0:09 and 0:10, maybe 0:09.7 or so. The car lurches right before the noise starts.

Does that sound right? That's all I can figure that lurch is, and it lines up with the weird sound.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I dont see how any lurch is possible without the clutch being engaged. Seems to me, either the clutch was pressed in right before the lurch or it was let out right before the lurch.
If thats the case, you're lucky it still runs.

 

I've done that before but not in the R, usually the starters break but that seemed like it was starvin for fuel, I've heard that noise before with fuel issues...