Another set of melted pistons after remap...

[funny onion]

So there we were on a drive out to the seaside when Sam decides to race an xk8 in my car. I was being nice letting him drive it for the first time since the cage went in to see what he thought. About 110mph and my car was still doing well! Then whoops, there goes number 4 piston.

Just being recovered now.

Who wants to buy a gt advance?

Edited April 17, 2013 by funny onion

[Starbuck]

fucking hell.

u and luck arent mixing in the same circles are ya.....

[morgey]

Another one bites the dust

[funny onion]

He's kindly offered me his engine, he's swapping it in tomorrow. Luckily we do have a few spare engines but none are built up yet.

[Bryan-4E-FTE]

would you really sell the car?!

[Liam_D]

Gutted bad times Atleast it died doing what they do best

[funny onion]

Lol just got it back to lock up and done a compression test, with an outstanding result of 0psi on number 4.

I wouldn't sell it unless it blows another engine anytime soon. Or if you want to make me a good offere? Haha

[Lew91]

Shit! Bad luck, sounds like it did well tho.

If you get stuck for another engine I've got a spare in the shed.

[turbo Grant]

Bad new but sure it will be sorted in no time

[Matt1878]

Ah that's grim!!... Sorry to hear that ... Guess you won't be making the meet this Sunday then

[funny onion]

Lol I would've made the meet just to make a point but realised just after I posted about it that I'm busy Sunday morning, but could still come across for the afternoon. Wouldn't mind popping it on the dyno with the new engine to check all is well. We will see. It won't win this one lol.

[Amjad]

Would be interesting to see what the issue was, good luck sorting it out

[funny onion]

Gut feeling is that it's melted the piston or cracked it in two. I don't think it's just ringland damaged as it wasn't smoking as bad as you'd think but there was vacuum in the breather on the rocker cover, and it had sprayed the underside of the bonnet in oil.

Ill know today as soon as the engine is out ill take it apart while sam puts the other one in. Will be very coincidental if it has melted like taggy's did...

[Amjad]

Oh I don't mean the actual damage, but what caused it to fail

[funny onion]

Oh I see. Yeah will be interesting to find out. It's either ran lean or the static timing was out most likely. The injector could've packed up I suppose. Soon as the new engine is in I'm booking in with will hinchcliffe at RDT (the guys whos mapped rob h's sr turbo) for him to map it. I would trust will to map anything. It probably won't make as much peak power but I'm confident that it will be running spot on.

[5e colin]

i feel for ya mi engine went there last week to ha ha ha , more costs

[Chrishoughton1989]

Just reading around didn't you only just get this mapped ?

[funny onion]

It was mapped on the 16th of February. Since then the bottom end has gone and this has happened. Not pointing fingers, but the reason I paid to have it mapped was to avoid things like this happening...

[AdamB]

Shit luck Hopefully won't be long till your back up and running again though.

[Jim*]

Who mapped it mate?

[funny onion]

Tuning developments. As said above though I'm not blaming anyone. I don't want people to think this thread or anything said in it is aimed at them.

[morgey]

Was it an original engine? They are getting old now and fatigue is getting the best of them unfortunately

[Chris_14a]

Was it an original engine? They are getting old now and fatigue is getting the best of them unfortunately

Agree with that comment especially considering how much everybody asks of these engines over what they are designed for they do incredibly well I think

[funny onion]

It was original rods pistons and crank. Yeah they are getting tired I suppose. But if it has melted it will be a different story. Ill post pics of the damage soon as I take them

[Rob H@RCH Engineering]

Sorry to here your having problems yet again! im sure you will get to the bottom of it and get it all sorted out. I can not say how pleased I am with mine! I should have done mine this way many years ago when I was having loads of problems but you learn from your mistakes!