might aswell post my failures here aswell
had 3 failures in total, 2x engine, 1x turbo
first engine fail was due to oil starvation, going a roundabout a few times and flooring it on the straight.
no oil pressure and this is what happens to the bearings (my own dumb fault)
lessons learned, rebuilt her as new.
in the middle of winter, it was a lovely day and thought to take the turbo out of hibernation and take it for a drive.
however... i made a small mistake and this was the result:
this is the oil that came out of the turbo.... compressor side...
and this was the exhaust side...
the error i made was my catch can. the leads to the catch can were full of water and it was winter so it was frozen.
the engine could not lose the pressure in the block and the first thing that gave way were the turbo seals and it blew oil into the intake and exhaust.
took the turbo apart, cleaned it, checked it, nothing was broken
gave it a nice color and rebuilt it and boosting fine ever since
my latste failure:
was driving her quite fiercely, overtook a car, floored it, had a bit of a boost spike according to my SAFC (1.1 bar) at 7100rpm, rod went bang...
lots of smoke, lots of unhealthy noises as she died on me.
so after dragging her back home we started taking her apart
rod made a new hole
that side of the rod is supposed to be down
the rod also made an air hole at the back...
then we removed the sump to see what horrors awaited us
as expected the 3rd rod was snapped, and has made quite a mess of things
after a bit of a hassle i got the broken rod out
i'm a very very lucky person as the crank is undamaged! not a scratch on it and still rotates freely. will have it measured just to be sure.
all the bearrings were in perfect shape, no damage to the crank or block at all.
she's all rebuilt (again) and boosting fine now