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frozenphil posted:"What is this metal and rubber doughnut thing on my engine? I bet removing it should be worth a few horsepower. Stupid engineers, this is a performance Porsche, it doesn't need a smooth ride!" The race teams use it so it must be better!* * - Involves extensive modifications and frequent engine tear-downs.
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That's interesting. I would have imagined Porsche having internally balanced motors.
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General_Failure posted:Heads and pistons from my collection. The thing to note on the bottom head is the shim sitting on it. See the hole burnt throught it? Yeah. Did that in less than an hour, on more than one cylinder. Due to the domed piston pictured next to it. That looks like a VW motor, but I can't quite tell with all the fail.. How does one destroy a motor like that?
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Feb 15, 2010 22:18
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they are, but replacing parts of the rotating assembly without rebalancing=bad things.
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Feb 15, 2010 22:23
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Big fail, indeed. http://www.todaysbigfail.com/view/20100215
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Feb 15, 2010 22:25
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ijustam posted:Big fail, indeed. That's making the rounds... I'd like to see pictures of what things looked like after he pried the hood open.
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Feb 15, 2010 22:28
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ijustam posted:Big fail, indeed.
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Feb 15, 2010 22:35
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InterceptorV8 posted:Those have to be the worst storage shelves I have ever seen. Think foam rubber sounds squishy and delicate? When it's 1) strapped to a pallet and 2) descending from thirty feet up, it'll gently caress up what it hits good and proper.
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Feb 15, 2010 22:35
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InitialDave posted:I've worked places with those shelves (and with a similar lack of bash-guards at the lower legs) - they're just thin sheet steel folded into sections, not even proper box or tube. They're frightening enough on their own, never mind when you see a loaded one get clipped by a forklift and crumple like the proverbial coke can. I once toured the local Heinz Foods plant (now StarKist or something, they make pet foods, not people foods.) And it was awesome. They built this huge warehouse, and it was going to be their biggest on the east coast, so they made it 75' high and had a fleet of cool 60' boom forklifts... Well we got to see a pallet of canned cat food pop it's plastic and MIRV cans from the top shelf... Was the best part of the tour. I was like 10 at the time.  They pointed to the heavy shields around the forklift and said "now you know..."
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Feb 15, 2010 22:44
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ijustam posted:Big fail, indeed. I'd like to imagine that the neighbors are inside trying to watch tv, rolling their eyes as the annoying neighbor with the loud car revs his engine again. The husband instinctively leans forward, reaching for the remote to raise it up three clicks when they both hear a loud THUNK, followed by the familiar nuisance noise stopping. They run to the window like children looking for Santa just in time to see the smoke begin pouring out from under the hood of the neighborhood travesty, and exchange a mutual grin before settling down to finish their viewing of whatever happened to be on TBS at the time.
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Feb 15, 2010 22:56
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You Am I posted:I'm not too sure whether that was a fail or whether the owner was doing that on purpose. The plastic bag taped over the broken front passenger window seems to point to the car being a piece of poo poo before getting thrashed like that. Plus there was a lack of "OH gently caress OH poo poo MAN YOUR DAD IS GOING TO BE PISSED" from the video. I liked how he went to open the hood, then grimaced at the oil on his hands... We all know when an engine makes that noise oil goes everywhere under there... Would have been funnier if whatever it decided wanted to GTFO had gone through the windscreen and into the idiot's head/chest instead of bouncing off.
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Feb 15, 2010 23:00
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ijustam posted:Big fail, indeed. That poor poor Neon.  Edit: Actually, I've seen this before. Too much slip and the bolts holding the modular clutch assembly together completely sheer. Not only do you have a 20+ lbs hunk of metal spinning in free fall all those sheered bolt heads shoot off like bullets. Same thing happens when you raise the rev limit on these things past the point at which the stock clutch assembly was designed. That guy is lucky to still have his legs. Or the motor just popped. /shrug Edit: content  SRT-4 decides to drop a valve. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 16, 2010 |
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Feb 15, 2010 23:56
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ijustam posted:Big fail, indeed. Hahahahahahahahahaha, check out the previous days fail. That would have hurt light poo poo. Even the commentator squeals out of sympathy.
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Feb 16, 2010 00:30
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InitialDave posted:I've worked places with those shelves (and with a similar lack of bash-guards at the lower legs) - they're just thin sheet steel folded into sections, not even proper box or tube. They're frightening enough on their own, never mind when you see a loaded one get clipped by a forklift and crumple like the proverbial coke can. Video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FAOY6Pmpk frozenphil fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Feb 16, 2010 |
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Feb 16, 2010 00:39
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FYI, that very same video was JUST posted, and was what InitialDave was replying to.
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Feb 16, 2010 02:31
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On the topic of failed burnouts, here is some Z06 flavor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3So0U1BMQ
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thArf posted:On the topic of failed burnouts, here is some Z06 flavor: You can almost hear the tears flowing when he says "gently caress!" right at the end.
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Feb 19, 2010 04:48
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grover posted:FYI, that very same video was JUST posted, and was what InitialDave was replying to. Mind linking me, cause I don't see it. Edit: Nevermind, I see you edited in the video after I had already moved on to the next page. I'm sorry I didn't check previous pages to see if anyone had edited it into their post.
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Feb 19, 2010 04:51
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frozenphil posted:Mind linking me, cause I don't see it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3222431&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=21#post372549588
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Sponge! posted:You can almost hear the tears flowing when he says "gently caress!" right at the end. The worst part is the description: quote:guy fries clutch instead of tires--professionals Don't worry about money, it was repaired under warranty by Chevy
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Feb 19, 2010 05:51
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My favorite personal disaster: Miata + Way too much power = Boom It was quite an experience at ~75mph, believe me. All told, bent output on transmission, destroyed driveshaft, rear subframe, halfshafts, powerplant frame, hole in gas tank, and more I'm probably forgetting.
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holy poo poo. the diff broke off the Power Plant Frame?! how much power were you making?
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UsernameExists posted:My favorite personal disaster: This is American V-8 drag car territory. I salute you.
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If i recall correctly, and I could very well be wrong, it's been about 6 years, it had dyno'd ~285hp a few months before that... Not bad for a 1.6 right? Of course I had the boost turned up a little before that happened. Sometimes I can't help myself... Believe it or not the diff was still good! Which is nice because the torsens were expensive. New cover and it was good to go. Best part was getting parts at a local junkyard. Talking to the guy, he gave a good deal ($400 for everything I needed!), because, I quote, "That's pretty loving awesome". UsernameExists fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Feb 20, 2010 |
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Not nearly as horrible as some others I've seen, but when you lose 2nd gear in a 3 speed transmission while driving down the highway, yeah, it's pretty horrible. Just one day it stopped shifting into second, so every time I accelerated, I had to red-line it and jam it into third and almost stall it... fun... When I opened it up, I counted 9 broken teeth on the 2nd gear and a groove through all of them. Never did figure out what happened. Had I known then what I now know about cars, I'd still have that rusty old '75 CJ5 and be wheeling the crap out of it. Click here for the full 640x480 image.
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nubie7357 posted:Not nearly as horrible as some others I've seen, but when you lose 2nd gear in a 3 speed transmission while driving down the highway, yeah, it's pretty horrible. Just one day it stopped shifting into second, so every time I accelerated, I had to red-line it and jam it into third and almost stall it... fun... When I opened it up, I counted 9 broken teeth on the 2nd gear and a groove through all of them. Never did figure out what happened. Had I known then what I now know about cars, I'd still have that rusty old '75 CJ5 and be wheeling the crap out of it. How on earth is this possible? There are perfectly fine teeth (except for that groove) in between totally destroyed teeth. 
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UsernameExists posted:hole in gas tank (that was patched with epoxy, which didn't last long  )
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Slung Blade posted:How on earth is this possible? There are perfectly fine teeth (except for that groove) in between totally destroyed teeth. Not really sure how it happened, it was a number of years ago and I didn't really know that much about cars then. Not that I know a lot now, but I've changed fluids and stuff. And now that I think about it, those gears do look pretty dry, and I didn't drain the fluid before removing the top, so who knows how much lubrication it was getting... Here's another pic for the morbidly curious, you can see metal shavings off to the left:  Click here for the full 640x480 image. You know, now I'm curious what the gears on the other shaft (output?) looked like. I never got pics because I'm fairly certain that at the time I didn't know exactly how a transmission worked and was just exploring to see what I could find. Dammit, now I want to track it down and see whatever happened to "the one that got away", but it got towed to a junkyard back in '05, probably crushed by now.
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Frank Dillinger posted:holy poo poo. the diff broke off the Power Plant Frame?! how much power were you making? gently caress the PPF. He broke the loving carriers off it.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Why is there a bran muffin in that cylinder?
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Feb 25, 2010 09:59
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Slung Blade posted:How on earth is this possible? There are perfectly fine teeth (except for that groove) in between totally destroyed teeth. I managed to do this to a toyota R151F transmission by putting my foot down in 5th gear!   Found all my teeth though!  And dad did this to his Transfer case on the Prado- did a sand dune in low range and tore the planetary assembly apart!    And thats the rest of it...
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No pictures because holy poo poo, I saw something that I never thought I'd see. Hauling rear end down the interstate, there is a big truck on the side of the road with triangles out, didn't even grab my camera, but noticed that there was black poo poo sprayed up the back of the sleep to the top (had a container on) but when I passed it, I noticed that the whole loving hood, windshield, and to the top of the sleeper (Anteater with full studio sleeper and fairings) was coated in black as night oil. Somehow the guy blew his loving engine so hard it shot oil out the front through the loving radiator and covered everything. That engine must have gone off in a bloody explosion that must have been really bloody impressive and created itself an superfund site at the same time. Guy didn't even lift the hood so I couldn't see a drat thing.
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this is not what a rod bearing should look like:
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jamal posted:this is not what a rod bearing should look like: Ouch... That hurts to look at it. Doesn't look like it really got that hot either. Contamination maybe?
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InterceptorV8 posted:That engine must have gone off in a bloody explosion that must have been really bloody impressive and created itself an superfund site at the same time. Guy didn't even lift the hood so I couldn't see a drat thing. Oil cooler line?
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Slack3r posted:Ouch... That hurts to look at it. Doesn't look like it really got that hot either. Contamination maybe? 7-bolt 4G63?
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Just found this. Pictures of the laker Algoport breaking up under tow to China. http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/algoportsink.htm
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MikeyTsi posted:7-bolt 4G63? EJ25 Subaru boxer
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rocket_350 posted:Just found this. Pictures of the laker Algoport breaking up under tow to China. Sissy lakers can't handle the open sea.
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lemons racers are pretty amusing. taken from http://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewtopic.php?id=3888 Click here for the full 800x600 image. quote:What thread would be complete without a picture of something broken on the Fiat??
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