worst day ive had in a long while......

[Sleeper_Avant]

long story short, arguing with the missus, ive lost a £1900 job at work to someone i work along side with in the company and istead of me getting the 2 day job and 5% bonus of £1900 that......... person.......... gets it all because of greedy area managers wanting money in the till to make his figures look good today instead of monday! :corey:

then on the way to pick my boy up from nursery 2 single lane road on a built up industrial/resteraunt area a bloke on a motorbike is coming towards me in my lane!!!
i flash my lights and slow down to stop, (its pishing it down) he decks his bike, bits everywhere.....

turns oot he is french and was looking for the travelodge! hence on the wrong side

i picked him up after establishing he didnt have any major injuries except his pride maby...... and the bike although he had a very deep cut on his lip and was very either scared or shocked.

i feel so so so guilty but i wasnt my fault, but i cant stop thinking about it

hope he is ok, and gets to do what he intended to do

anyone else had a bad one today?

[K7ERG]

Not good mate.

[zefsider]

bad day indeed...

but not your fault...though I had a good one today getting 4 wheel alignment done at last, and many thanks to Alex for his help in the matter....yesterday though was not too sparkling, hospital told me they were gonna have to take my right eye out end of July...on the upside they said they might put it back in again if its not as bad as they think but whichever way I won't be driving for a while afterwards...bah..still, as the Spartan said in The 300, the gods saw fit to bless me with a spare ! ( And a spare throttle position switch...cheers again Alex ! )

[Sleeper_Avant]

zef, medical things make everything else insignificant, best of luck with that

[Rikki Kitto]

Spent all day in the pi***ng rain preparing two guys for their motorcycle test, got to the test centre only to be told the examiners are on strike One of them is off to india for three months next week and needed it for his travels

[prj]

Checking in.
Melted a piston yesterday during mapping due to head lifting and coolant running into cylinder.

Not my fault, and nothing I could have done to prevent it, but **** day none the less.

[K7ERG]

Checking in.
Melted a piston yesterday during mapping due to head lifting and coolant running into cylinder.

Not my fault, and nothing I could have done to prevent it, but **** day none the less.

Not good!

[andyg plym]

gosh i feel guilty now as the world is a funny old place for life balance etc

why do i say this?

well,yesterday i bought another avant and in it was a load of spares,one being an avant roof spoiler.....it was only the day before i was thinking about trying to hunt one down....

[Sleeper_Avant]

Rikki, sods law isnt it!
i normaly get customers cars delivered for timing belts or clutches etc then say im going on holiday tomorow............ you just know its going pear shaped lol

PRJ, been there done that!

i rebuilt a GTiR to about 500bhp spec, customer supplied all the bits, Tomei cams, long rods, and pistons and an unbranded multilayer headgasket that i did not want to fit, he assured me quality was perfect so it was nailed together, 32psi setting up the Power FC and it shat itself, bending a rod when it filled with water at 7000+RPM........... needless to say i felt bad! but felt better when it was built the 2nd time after i gave it the "i told you so" parts quality speach

[Sleeper_Avant]

Andy, this is an Emo style we hate the world cos this happened..... thread

you my friend are banned lol

[zefsider]

Cheers SA....alwways look 4 the upside....there usually is one....BTW the motorbike guy's why not take the test when he gets to India ? Must be easiier and cheaper if do-able ?

[kninio]

i`ve kicked a dog in the road , he jump in front of the car from an exist which was in front of me in 4 meters and i was driving slowly almost 40km/h, i braked hard but i didnt see him anymore untill car stoped he climped and continue runing as a stupid dog , seems it wasn`t strong kick just that i pushed him , cos he didnt even scream and continue runing normaly , i wanted to inspect him but went inside a field , i feelt sorry for him but when i checked the car and see no damage at all in front , i think it wasnt hard at all cos usaly dogs ruin the cars..., i feelt bad cos i dont like to hurt animals

[pixsaudisex2]

*****st day ever for me some real bad news.taken me over a day to take it in

[quattro84]

Checking in.
Melted a piston yesterday during mapping due to head lifting and coolant running into cylinder.

Not my fault, and nothing I could have done to prevent it, but **** day none the less.

Can you explain how this leads to melting the piston? I can understand that cylinder pressure lifts the head and forces combustion pressure in coolant system forcing coolant into overflow tank in stead of letting it go into the bore. After that if the o-rings in the headgasket are gone it can make the piston hydrolocking in the bore and filling up every other cavity of the engine.

[prj]

Can you explain how this leads to melting the piston? I can understand that cylinder pressure lifts the head and forces combustion pressure in coolant system forcing coolant into overflow tank in stead of letting it go into the bore. After that if the o-rings in the headgasket are gone it can make the piston hydrolocking in the bore and filling up every other cavity of the engine.

You tell me how exactly it happened...
There were certain grave mistakes made during the last time the head was taken off as well, as I found out.

But the point is that it is molten close to the water jacket, right in the middle and the plug looks just fine.
Also no leaning of air fuel mixture showed up on WBO2 and no knock was registered by my ears or by the control unit. And even if my ears can be deceiving - the ECU always heard knock very well on this car.

The car was constantly driven around during mapping, and this happened after it was left to idle a bit, and then 1->2->3 from start... Before that it did lots of pulls without problems. Engine noise went from OK to "ok, this is bad" in 0.5 seconds or less.

There were no signs of damage on any of the other pistons. There was even no damage in the same cylinder on the other side and no damage to the spark plug.
This car has also done more than 20k miles on my map before, standing mile races etc.

When taking off the head there was lots of coolant in the cylinder.