wils harewood

[guru_1071]

i very kindly lent wil my incar camera


oppps.....



spot the fastest flame ever seen by man!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3NOyguBec

[Ronnie]

Well the extinguisher appeared to work

[Dean]

Nice hole in no4 piston. Whoops

At Least your camera is ok. Ha ha

Can't be the nices thing seeing smoke coming from your bonnet then having to pull the fire extinguisher,

[Ronnie]

What caused it?

[mini13]

the pistons were machined out to get lower compression, they were only about 4mm thick, It seems after several years of abuse and upping the power they finaly just yelled enough!

[JC T ONE]

Thats one fast 998cc Mini shame about the piston

Hope the Black box on the bulkhead, survived the fluids from the fire extinguisher.

[Chris64]

That did look super quick until that point!

Hope you can get it fixed quickly!

[wil_h]

The damage is as follows:

No. 4 piston - fooked
No. 1 piston - Signs of failure
Slight damage to head chambers on No.2 and No.4 - no damage to valve seats
2 slightly bent exhaust valves
1 slightly bent inlet valve
Fire extinguisher goo everywhere
Crud in gearbox, but no damage

No damage to the ecu, it's a well IP rated box.

New pistons in the post, will all be back together for Gurston in August.

Extremely lucky.

P.S luckily my brother was thre in his new hillclimb mini (also 998 turbo) so I shared that. Here's some videos. Not as fast as mine, but it's not bad for it's first ouiting in anger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOfZ-LU1KY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJZHdVKz1Q