Well everything we all fear has just happend to my coupe. Driving along in traffic of boost and bang,smoke and bits and pieces seen in the rear view mirror,coasted out of gear to a stop thinking I had lost a hose, or oil cooler, or something similar, as the engine was still running on what seemed to be 3 cylinders.Turned the car of and found parts of a conrod, and bits of block,plus oil and water everywhere.
I found bits of block on both sides of the engine, and a completetly severed conrod complete with small end gudgen pin.
I have at this moment no idea of how much damage has been done to the head, but I am sure it will be damaged beyond repair along with the rest of the engine.
So that said its time for an inquest hopefully to find out why this happened and to guard against it happening to others in the future.,
Starting with a breaf history.
The car is a 3b coupe with a replacement ann bottom end, and refurbished s2 head,
RS2 turbo,manifold and injectors 3inch down pipe and exhaust,7a fpr, 044 fuel pump
and MRC remap,oil changed every 2ooo ml and bills in exsess of £27000.
All the modes where quite recent including a brand new turbo which blew after a few hundred miles, and had to rebuilt, but thats another story,or may be it was the start of this current problem.
For the future referance of others it would be good to hear from any one who has suffered an engine failure.
We are all aware of the problems of cam belt failure, bottom pulley failure, and the so called spark hop,but I do not think any of these where the cause of my problems.
My reasons for thinking this are the problems MRC had mapping the car.Mihnea who I have great faith in could not get the car to make power, even though the car was produceing more boost than an RS2 and holding it to the red line with no problems he could not get the tourqe and bhp figures up to what he thought they should be.
This was not for want of trying,first sesson started at 9am and finished at 11pm,and the second took 7hrs resulting in a drivable car with reasonable and safe power.
The main problem in the first sesson was knock, which we put down to the origanal air box and a restrictive exhaust,so I fitted a RS2 airbox and a 3in down pipe and exhaust
which did help. When I take the engine out I will know more and post some pictures.
In the mean time I am in the market for another engine so if anyone has anything to offer I am very interested,my faith is definatly waining, I am not ready to give in just yet,but I am now of to get pissed
I found bits of block on both sides of the engine, and a completetly severed conrod complete with small end gudgen pin.
I have at this moment no idea of how much damage has been done to the head, but I am sure it will be damaged beyond repair along with the rest of the engine.
So that said its time for an inquest hopefully to find out why this happened and to guard against it happening to others in the future.,
Starting with a breaf history.
The car is a 3b coupe with a replacement ann bottom end, and refurbished s2 head,
RS2 turbo,manifold and injectors 3inch down pipe and exhaust,7a fpr, 044 fuel pump
and MRC remap,oil changed every 2ooo ml and bills in exsess of £27000.
All the modes where quite recent including a brand new turbo which blew after a few hundred miles, and had to rebuilt, but thats another story,or may be it was the start of this current problem.
For the future referance of others it would be good to hear from any one who has suffered an engine failure.
We are all aware of the problems of cam belt failure, bottom pulley failure, and the so called spark hop,but I do not think any of these where the cause of my problems.
My reasons for thinking this are the problems MRC had mapping the car.Mihnea who I have great faith in could not get the car to make power, even though the car was produceing more boost than an RS2 and holding it to the red line with no problems he could not get the tourqe and bhp figures up to what he thought they should be.
This was not for want of trying,first sesson started at 9am and finished at 11pm,and the second took 7hrs resulting in a drivable car with reasonable and safe power.
The main problem in the first sesson was knock, which we put down to the origanal air box and a restrictive exhaust,so I fitted a RS2 airbox and a 3in down pipe and exhaust
which did help. When I take the engine out I will know more and post some pictures.
In the mean time I am in the market for another engine so if anyone has anything to offer I am very interested,my faith is definatly waining, I am not ready to give in just yet,but I am now of to get pissed
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