teh c4rn463 ownz m3!

[Carl H]

some pics of the tear down so far, luckily no damage to the crank or rod bearings that can be seen visualy.......yes that is a hole melted into the piston.

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[s13_rb25det]

good opportunity to change to forged ones

[rbsileighty]

And punch her out to 2.2

Sorry to see she's down bud, and I must have missed the post on what happened.... so.... what happened (more specific what were you doing when it happened)?

[Carl H]

to make a long story short we were on the highway doing some pulls for a short vid we were trying to compile of my car and i downshifted into 2nd doing 65mphish (bout 5.5-6k) and went out to 8, shifted to 3rd and 1/2 way thru third lost power, felt like a blown ic hose so we limped it to a gas station.after examining the puddle of oil under the car we concluded that it wasnt a ic hose.basicaly we speculate that the damage was caused by me being stupid when i first got the car swapped and running, so it was mearly a matter of time before it went boom.not sure what im gonna do interms of rebuilding it yet, at this point its about how much money i can afford to spend being in school full time.......

[SillyRB]

Good luck man.Sorry to hear the motor went pop, but i suppose you had been expecting some sort of damage to the bottom end for a while.Good Luck with the Build Up.

[Spazz]

take your time and rebuild that motor. Let me know if you need any help with machine work.Here something i found in my travels. good luck!!

http://www.swmotorsport.com/engines.htm

[Yellow4g63]

Hmm that rod don't look weak to me looks good enough to hold some good hp .

[DETurbine]

sucks....mine some what looked like that....not as bad as yours but was pretty close. Gives you an excuse to build the motor.

[Sil240]

Sorry to hear that broCall up JE they now have pistons for the RB20Make sure you let them know that they have already made them, so they dont charge you the custom fee they did to me.

[Bronze MFP]

awww, where's the awesome pic of you sitting in your engine bay?

I wish i got a better pic of the melted hole, it looks pretty sweet close up. Too bad my digital camera sucks a fatty and is farsighted when you get things too close to it.

[JDMEnthused]

sorry about to hear about that accident Carl. one of my friends, Sean told me about it. i was ah, ****.. that does suck though. keep us updated on the progress of your rebuild.

[BoostFab]

aww, how cute--look at that lil piston that could...

btw! carl, i have a rb25 crank i'm not using, if you want to do a stroker !!!!