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One pic from my trackday at knockhill, plenty more but not loading up to photobucket from my phone because of **** slow wifi
 
OI WEEDUB, WAKEN UP!! WE HAVE ANOTHER TRACKDAY BOOKED!!

Wed 6th August.. knockhill again, best get some brake pads haha
 
Good morning sleepyhead..


Heres the pads I have taken off, the pads that are right to the backing plates were the outer pads and the ones with minimal pad left were the inner ones, new pads on now and good to go :)

 
2nd trackday and i am sad to report that weedub is dead... only running on 3 cylinders and blowing quite a bit of wind out the crankcase breather... pointing towards piston rings :( really really hope its just needing an injector, plug or coil pack..

Got 3 good sessions out on the track though and my £4.99 camera mount held up well even in the g-force inducing 360 degree spin i had in Duffus chicane haha.

Vids to be uploaded tomorrow as im too knackered to do it tonight
 


Hopefully the only reason im missing a cylinder, but im fearing a piston ring too due to some pressure coming out the crank case breather..
 
Stuart said:


Hopefully the only reason im missing a cylinder, but im fearing a piston ring too due to some pressure coming out the crank case breather..

I'd be much more concerned WHY the plug failed. That's clearly a side effect of something being very wrong. This is going to need investigation, from timing to engine management/mapping.

Hard to tell by photo but... plug 1, heavily sooted. Overfuel. Plug 2.... ****ed. Hard to tell if it's carbonized AND glazed or whether there's oil on it too, however it's likely underfuelled and caused det. That cylinder is now suspect and teh engine needs a compression test. If it's bad, it can lunch an engine very quickly. Especially a turbo car. Cylinder 3 we've got lighter soot than one and 4 is similar. Overfuel, yet the damage to 2 usually indicates lean. If you're lucky, it's possibly just an injector.

Truthfully, (and with the though that IF it's worst case scenario and the damage is already done, i'd compression test and if all looked "ok", put new plugs in, run briefly and remove again for a side by side comparison (as above). And hope all plugs looked the same. If not i'd try and re-time it then repeat the plug test and take it from there.
 
Will be black and sooty as I was trying to keep the engine running to ensure that oil was circulating the turbo, could only manage for a minute as it kept cutting out, then copious amounts of attempting to start will have caused the overfuel.. shell be reet ;)

One more track day in october and the engine is getting swapped oit for a much younger one.. that one has had 2 years of death with only oil changes. Not too bad really.
 
Ap 4 pot calipers and an oil catch tank just been ordered from ebay, courtesy of cav parts starting to leave my posession :)
 
*sigh*

Melted plug was replaced and although the car ran well, there is a horrendous amount of pressure coming out the oil breathers, so obviously piston rings are shot.

New engine time
 
Well... yesterday was bloody productive and today not so...

Bumper off, bumper bar removed along with radiator and fmic and associated pipework, remove exhaust and disconnect driveshafts. Wiring disconnected and hung over the side of the car. Engine and gearbox then pulled out through the front and dropped onto wood. Exhaust manifold and turbo removed along with the injection system, and start stripping same from new engine and swap over.

Today saw the clutches and flywheels getting stripped.. until we found that we didnt have the tool for the type of bolts used. So that stopped play, tomorrow will see the flywheel removed and remounted on new engine, gearbox on and back into the car.
 
Last of the ancillaries swapped over today and engine back in, tomorrow just the radiator to go on, fill the fluids and start the bitch up!

Then switch off and go over all the bits ive missed haha
 
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