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MikeS
Every couple years We get an engine that goes so wrong, it is worth
a picture or two.Cummins ISX.
One big expensive issue.
Two pictures
new2hpr
I believe that is refered to as a “window” by those in the trade.
Ouch!
djsroc
Ive done that twice in my vehicles and once in my racing kart. Quite funny til you have to walk 😆
SCOTT EVANS
Ive done that twice in my vehicles and once in my racing kart. Quite funny til you have to walk 😆
OR PAY FOR IT!!
Jeffrey Joe Hinton
Might that have been due to synthetic oil instead of the real stuff? I’m glad I wasn’t driving next to it when she went kablooie.
djsroc
Ive done that twice in my vehicles and once in my racing kart. Quite funny til you have to walk 😆
OR PAY FOR IT!!
Ah the cars were old beaters, so no big loss, but the kart engine hurt my feelers along with the wallet, hehe
MikeS
Probably ‘overspeed’… Topping a hill at eighty and not letting up.
Some years ago a big problem with S60 Detroits.About a $35,000.00 repair. Yes. Thirty Five Thousand.
slipstick
Here’s a picture of an engine that through a rod on one of my race bikes in 2000. It comes from the following web page that was about my season:
http://www.650motorcycles.com/MikeKonshak.html
You can see the aluminum rod (less the small end) sticking out at the bottom of the slot. It went through the steel sleeve. The rest of it is still with the piston. Valves were bent as well. This happened on the south banking of Daytona Speedway, going about 135mph. It made quite a clatter! I was able to get the clutch pulled in (before the wheel could lock up) and dropped down as Yvon du Hamel went screaming by top side.
Rockets are safer 😉
Adrian
Rockets are safer Wink
😯
No doubt.
And I must say that website is much cooler than your slide rule one.
I traveled over 20,000 miles, raced a total of 72 main events and brought home just as many trophies.
Mike, when you go, you go big, that’s for sure.
Warren B. Musselman
No question about it, when Mike gets into something, he goes big in a big way… Robot Wars, Rockets, apparently racing motorcycles… I’d like to see Mike get some really big rocketry ambitions like an S or a T motor sub-orbital.
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