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holy snapping duckshit Batman!

my wallet was aching as I looked at those pics.

Is it still in the warranty period!! hehe

Have never seen an engine split like that before......

Cheers

ouch! This is my worst nighmare for my engine but I am prepared for it to happen.
T54

I would want to measure and xray that crank before reuse too!

That should have an R rating for extreme violence. I'm reeling in shock

I know a really good welder!!!

[ Edited on 23-5-2007 by dogo ]

man...thats almost the identical dream I have with the TAT turbo....

wow so what caused it ?

$$$$$$$$$

I bet his wallet's hurting a little now.

Have seen some and had some good breakages in my time but none to the magnatitude of that.

RESPECT from me for that effort!!

I had similar damage done to an 1835 in about 1980 when we tried (successfully eventually after about 3 and a bit engines destroyed) to fit nitrous. After about 10 seconds everything goes very silent with plenty of smoke (always white smoke? Never sussed that one out!) At the time the only system we had available was on or off no variable(?) injection. Scary as all hell when it worked with the back wheels suddenly trying to overtake the front at around 50 mph! Had pistons seize inside the barrels, valves welded in the head and all the associated damage caused by the whole thing suddenly coming to a halt. Ah the days when I had money to spend on me:jesus

lol the $$$ coment