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wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:11 pm
by 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
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:49 pm
by Ronnie
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:57 pm
by 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,
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:01 pm
by Ronnie
What caused it?
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:07 pm
by 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!
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:10 pm
by 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.
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:35 am
by Chris64
That did look super quick until that point!
Hope you can get it fixed quickly!
Re: wils harewood
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:13 am
by 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
