Engine carnage from Mt Washington

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 07/29/2014 at 12:14 • Filed to: None

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Yep. It broke

CAR_IS_MI > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:16

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Holy crap you did a number on that. What was this in?

Brian Silvestro > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:16

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Uuuhhhh...now what?

For Sweden > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:17

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Did you try resetting the ECU? Sometimes that helps.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:17

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That'll buff right out.

RazoE > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:18

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VTEC kicked in a little too hard, yo'.

daender > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:18

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Oooh, nice porting and polish!

Mattbob > For Sweden 07/29/2014 at 12:19

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you win all the stars.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:19

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Reminds me of the time a very worn out Robin water pump engine tried to kill me that way. Chunks whistling by and leaving a grease slick in my hair.

Mattbob > RazoE 07/29/2014 at 12:19

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so hard

Mattbob > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:22

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Focus/fiesta?

Dusty Ventures > Mattbob 07/29/2014 at 12:25

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Yep, Fiesta

Dusty Ventures > CAR_IS_MI 07/29/2014 at 12:25

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Fiesta R2

Party-vi > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:26

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Dayum

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/29/2014 at 12:27

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Hang on a sec, Robin as in Reliant ?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:29

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Not good.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > For Sweden 07/29/2014 at 12:30

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#COTD

BJ > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:31

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You finished the race, though, right? I mean, it's not like all 4 cylinders exploded!

TulsaMtnBiker (OkieRising) > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:36

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That'll buff out.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:41

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nothing like twisted steel as a show of force.

EL_ULY > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:45

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It will not break, it will not break.....it broke

macanamera > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 12:45

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Wtf! How does this even happen?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 07/29/2014 at 12:46

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Nope, Robin as in this:

Formerly Robin-Wisconsin, it's a division of Fuji Heavy Industries alongside Subaru.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/29/2014 at 13:04

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Ah, thank you for clarifying. Does Robin sell their engines to various manufacturers who stick their own labels on them, or are they just higher end than I'm used to seeing?

I was trying to imagine someone deliberately racing a Reliant Robin and hilarity (and incredulity) ensued. :-)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > NotUnlessRoundIsFunny 07/29/2014 at 13:09

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Apparently they aren't even sold as "Robin" anymore, but as Subaru. They were sold as Robin up until fairly recently, though. Not very high quality, possibly best seen as about the same level as Briggs intermediate industrial stuff, maybe a couple grades below honda.

briannutter1 > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:11

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How did the rod journal look. Bearing failure first or pure rod breakage? Who's rod?

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/29/2014 at 13:12

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Thanks! You learn something new every day. :-)

tromoly > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:12

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Carnage! I'm guessing the wristpin tore through the con rod and that's when the fun happened?

The Compromiser > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:16

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Carry on Regardle.. Oh What ? They what? Shit... Nevermind.

sketchcat > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:21

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air cooled. much flow.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:40

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Well there is your problem!

Captain of the Enterprise > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 13:47

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Thats a very nice new ventilation hole you've got there. Plus it looks custom.

wrblue11 > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 14:34

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I'm sure anything M sport is not cheap

Dusty Ventures > briannutter1 07/29/2014 at 14:43

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It was in the R2 Fiesta we raced at Mt Washington. Technically it started with a valve breaking and trying to race on three cylinders, don't know the order of failure after that. I'm not the one who took the engine apart.

Dusty Ventures > tromoly 07/29/2014 at 14:45

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First the valve snapped, so we tried to race it on three cylinders because Troy needed the points, then it asploded. Don't know details beyond that, I didn't do the engine teardown.

Dusty Ventures > macanamera 07/29/2014 at 14:46

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Well, first you need to lose a valve, then you need to try to run the engine full throttle up a mountain looking like this.

briannutter1 > Dusty Ventures 07/29/2014 at 15:20

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ok, usually when a rod breaks it's usually the Bearing that goes first and the rod tries to weld itself to the journal. The rod may have just snapped, but let me know if you need help putting it back together. I'm with Wiseco piston and we have a sister company by the name of K1 that may have a rod for you.

Dusty Ventures > briannutter1 07/29/2014 at 15:25

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Due to vehicle rules we have to run M-Sport parts in the engine. The car is fixed and back out kicking ass.

Dusty Ventures > wrblue11 07/31/2014 at 20:44

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It's the shipping costs that really hurt. They have to be shipped from M-Sport to an M-Sport licensed distributor (there are only two in the U.S.), then from distributor to customer.