Well......

when this happens.....


this is what went wrong....








intake ports on #4......all of this happend on #1



Long story short....catastrophic engine failure....dropped a valve....not sure when it went but we noticed power was down last week....compression checked ohkay....we thought it was just the HEAT AND HUMIDITY that caused the lower numbers....you win some you lose some....this past weekend was a big loss for the R & D fast and furious team....we will be back for vir....maybe in h4 cause that's the only engine we have sitting around....

would like to thank dave, ian, and daniel for all the help setting up the car and such.....for those of you not there, we had the head off in about 20 minutes.....when work needs to be done this crew really knows how to do it...and i appreciate it greatly....also would like to thank pete and his wife gail for opening their home to us and for the great food they provided!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE WILL SEE YOU AT VIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! H1 i'm gonna roll you in a sohc vtec engine!!!! hehehe

 

Ouch! sorry about the rough weekend

 

Wow. . .thats too bad, those pct slugs probably come awfully close to the valves. Hopefully you'll be at VIR with another twincam.

 

That was a glorious plume of smoke you left down around the carousel! Hope you still had a good weekend despite the engine failure and that you can whip something up quick for next time around!

 

**** OEM

 

Sorry you guys didn't stay Sat. night. Good luck with rebuild for Lowes!

 

Sorry about the back luck to the R and D crew. Hope to see you guys at Lowes. Still have that LSD for you CHAD!

 

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Even though OE parts were not the cause of your problem?

 

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damn. it can only get better from here man.

 

what happened to cause so much damage? that seems a bit much to me

 

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Valve dropped.

Head broke off.

Chewed the piston into something that looks like a tuna can. Remember the pistons are aluminum.

Metal shavings sucked back through the intake and into the other cyls.

RJ

 

...and I thought this was just the fireworks lighting off from our stop at South of the Border....wishful thinking, I guess. We'll be back for VIR, though.

 

Damnit Chad, I told you you need to quit squeezing at the track.

 

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David,
It was good to talk to you in the pits.. sorry for the rotten luck, you could have had the engine out of thedel sol for hte sundays race really hehe Gald to hear you'll be back @ VIR, when Chad, John and James all took to turn one it looked like it was going to be a heck of a race between three cars.
I guess they must have used thier fireworks up when you guys were unloading the car on friday... doh!

 

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We ONLY squeeze in the straights, not the twisties....

 

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no other legal option though...

 

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OMFG.

In my 36 years on this planet, most of them spent around cars, I have never seen a piston that chewed up.

Your block looks OK though so at least its not a total loss

Mike

 

It looks like you blew the welds on your intake manifold

That really sucks.

 

**** OEM


OEM parts work quite well, FYI

 

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I will have to 2nd this

 

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Yes they do, err did.


Before and after tuning, although I think she would put down a bit less now....

 

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OMFG.

In my 36 years on this planet, most of them spent around cars, I have never seen a piston that chewed up.

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well, if you want to see something worse, this is what happened to me:

 

I wondered what happened in that pic, looked like WAAAAY too much smoke to be just locking up the brakes...

 

yeah it was more than tire smoke......

 

What was the engine setup or can't you say? I saw some CTR pistons.....