WA Spotted & Chit Chat Thread

[Guest]

Got told Phil Bensons typhoon broke a motor?

any detail?

[tinyplums]

where is hoon boy today?? taken week off to catch up on lost driving??

Edited 18/03/09 06:39 AM by tinyplums

[Under-Pants]

Dunno but I saw him hooning up the freeway about an hour or two ago while @ work...

[tinyplums]

I thought u might have man-napped him to have an involutary romantic long weekend together

[Under-Pants]

It was on the cards plums, budget blew out though

[Ninka]

He sold it & the motor popped... Cracked block spec from excessive piston slappage!

New owner is forking out for rebuild so should go rather nicely in the near future!

Interesting, piston slappage, you sure about that?

I built the engine, and I can guarantee you that it did not have excessive piston slappage

Maybe the fact that the tune in the car was very aggressive could have something to do with the engine breaking!

Feeding 24psi into it @ 3000rpm will destroy engines, no matter how well they are put together, but Russ wanted that 'tyresmoking rush' from low rpm, so that's the result.

What happened is most likely a high throttle input from low rpm, a piston skirt either bent or broke due to excessive boost, causing the damage to the block, rods were 600 kw rated Atomic rods, so I don't see them breaking easily.

The Mahle pistons in this particular engine, are running well in my own car right now, and though not 100% rattle free, they are very quiet, with only slight piston noise evident at idle, and I'm running 364rwkw with an auto, and never had a problem.

Hope this sets the record straight - YOU PLAY, YOU PAY

I regret this was the result for the new owner, and I hope the car is back on the road again soon

[TaHa]

--- Abit off topic here but! Yes I know im putting the cash to get all the mods at once but I came across something I couldnt pass! lol Picked up a genuine XR8 Bonnet yesterday for $500 cash few paint chips on it and a tiny little bend on top left corner. Though id see how hard it was put it in, took me about 5-10min by my self and here is what it ended up like.

Booked in Monday to get re-sprayed white. Altho having it on I though about getting it painted the 2 tone colour of the side skirts n stuff.. what ya'll think? white or 2 tone colour? I normaly dont like the diff colour bonnet stuff but mmm....

Edited 18/03/09 09:35 AM by RATED X

[XF Falcon]

Here ya go, a quick photoshop for ya. It doesn't look as bad as I thought. When I was driving around with a black bonnet for a week or so, it actually really grew one me.. but as soon as the silver paint was done I thought hell yeah that's way better. At least you have the silver in all the other bits so you have a theme going ya know.

[XF Falcon]

Spotted Few T's at todays car show, also so XR 40 WA ( think that's what it was :X) was good talking to ya man, engine bay looked nice car is a full on sleeper dude!

That thing is far from a sleeper imo... Dropped with big wheels & black paint covering the windows

I agree after seeing it today

Been a while since I've been around here, but the above mentioned car has got me thinking about a turbo ute....

hehe cheers guys

It was great to catch up with ya again ratedx (sorry forgot your name). Ya don't see many of those >Nov 08 XR6 Turbos driving around, so it will be nice to see it in the flesh one day.

[TaHa]

yeah man not many of em around, Mods will begin soon also, gonna look something like your engine bay haha, will catch up soon somewhere im sure!