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Luckily for my friend he was only going 45-50mph into Canada corner at the time of the failure and wound up in the gravel. In some other spots around Road America it might have gotten ugly.
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Savington posted:Jesus, that was common this weekend. I imagine the worst part of that was when you survived, didn't flip the car, but were stuck on the tarmac and couldn't move when there are still cars coming. Glad you made it!
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May 6, 2013 21:49
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Scales? DOT? What are you driving?
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May 7, 2013 03:27
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Savington posted:Jesus, that was common this weekend. Hey, I was there for the hdpe. Glad you're OK--seemed like a lot of people found themselves in the dirt that weekend.
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“When fully mature the valve bud will leave the piston bed and migrate to it's proper place in the internal combustion ecosystem."
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May 7, 2013 04:43
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Got any shots of the munched-up head?
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May 7, 2013 04:57
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I think I found out my P0141 problem...
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May 7, 2013 05:38
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Devyl posted:I think I found out my P0141 problem... How in the actual gently caress did the outside melt while the actual sensor bit is intact? Alternately, what the hell am I looking at?
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May 7, 2013 06:07
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Boat failure time. This one isn't a failure of any sort whatsoever, but it gives an idea of the kind of engines we deal with:  This group of photos are all from an item of equipment - any guesses?      And this is a different piece of equipment - again, any guesses?     And for bonus points on the second one, anyone guess HOW they found the problem? And this is not so much mechanical failure as crew morale failure  Yeah.
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May 7, 2013 06:12
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This was the driver's side idler arm on a early 2000-ish AWD Chevy Astro Van: I'd like to think that there was plenty of advance warning before this happened, just amazed it didn't cause an accident when it did. 
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May 7, 2013 06:37
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Fucknag posted:How in the actual gently caress did the outside melt while the actual sensor bit is intact? Alternately, what the hell am I looking at?
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May 7, 2013 07:39
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Savington posted:Brake failure? Check: Good to hear you're okay. Just in case your brakes ever fail at 10. Go thru the fence like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrveASsJMZ0
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May 7, 2013 07:45
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BARBE-SPRINGUUUUUUU 350 chevy boat engine, got so hot the valve got pliable enough for the spring to turn it inside-out.
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May 7, 2013 07:47
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EightBit posted:
The idle actually dropped about 350-400 rpm after I changed that out, if that tells you anything. The inside is toast, but the outside got bent from the previous owner trying to imitate a Top Gear stunt or something. It was bent even worse than that. Had to take a pair of pliers and bend it back enough to fit in the O2 socket.
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May 7, 2013 08:16
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Slavvy posted:BARBE-SPRINGUUUUUUU Uhh, I'm going to need to see the other valves before I believe the valve neatly inverted without causing carnage before the head melted.
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May 7, 2013 08:53
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Cakefool posted:Uhh, I'm going to need to see the other valves before I believe the valve neatly inverted without causing carnage before the head melted. Cast iron head  Best theory thus far is that it was a defective valve out of the factory, the others were fine.
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May 7, 2013 10:21
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May 7, 2013 15:11
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from the show "last car standing", 3 way tug of war, BMW driver thought he was spinning his tires, so he shifted up through the gears to 5th and gunned it. linked because 5mb gif. http://i.minus.com/iboCK7VV5sAIZY.gif
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Powershift posted:from the show "last car standing", 3 way tug of war, BMW driver thought he was spinning his tires, so he shifted up through the gears to 5th and gunned it. linked because 5mb gif. What the hell happened?
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May 7, 2013 22:05
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Is that show any good? I saw that it was from the makers of Canada's Worst Driver but it's so hard to catch up on those shows (either legally or not quite as much but defended by the home taping act  ) that I missed all of the episodes so far.
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Super melty clutch. But that's an e46 m3 bumper on an e36 so that car deserves it.Seat Safety Switch posted:Is that show any good? I saw that it was from the makers of Canada's Worst Driver but it's so hard to catch up on those shows (either legally or not quite as much but defended by the home taping act Canada's worst driver is genuinely great and horrifying at the same time. It is loving mind boggling how BAD people can be at driving.
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May 7, 2013 22:22
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Two Finger posted:Boat failure time. Air conditioning evap/condenser coil I am guessing?
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Ok, will lawyer up thanks goons.
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May 8, 2013 07:50
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If you go the legal route, you should avoid posting about it until the trial is over and your lawyer has given you the thumbs up.
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Yeah, just delete the post and carry on. Contact a lawyer, who will contact Dodge for you.
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PromethiumX posted:Air conditioning evap/condenser coil I am guessing? Yep. Holes like that aren't normal operating conditions, that's for sure.
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Not necessarily a mechanical faliure, but a friend doing One Lap of America in their FRS just had a puncture of their floor somehow.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Is that show any good? I saw that it was from the makers of Canada's Worst Driver but it's so hard to catch up on those shows (either legally or not quite as much but defended by the home taping act I watched a bit of that episode the other night, was pretty terrible. They dont actually do anything fun or cool. 3 challenges are: drive around a tiny circle for 6 laps, slowest car gets destroyed. drive up a steep ramp, car who has the lowest angle gets destroyed. 3 way tug of war, winner moves on, 2 others tug of war again and the loser gets destroyed. didnt hang around to watch the final challenge.
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http://www.gtrlife.com/forums/topic/85083-forged-performance-the-truth/ This whole thread is full of mechanical failure gold. Guy spent $250k and waited 22 months for his GTR and got back a pile of crap.
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OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SPENT?! Jesus loving christ, why why why why don't I run a shoddy shop and rip idiots off? Why? I could quite literally live for ten years on that much ill gotten money if I had to.
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Comrade Flynn posted:http://www.gtrlife.com/forums/topic/85083-forged-performance-the-truth/ http://www.myg37.com/forums/vendor-comments-reviews-feedback/207073-forged-performance-and-my-g37-tt-build.html Another guy with the same experience with the same shop. What a hack.
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I just finished reading the $250k GT-R and holy poo poo that's bad.
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kastein posted:OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SPENT?! Um, as much as I suspect the shop is at fault, apparently this shop had a pretty bad reputation to begin with. Its a shop failure and a gullible fool.
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D C posted:What a hack. Imagine how many idiot customers he has that don't know the difference between good work and bad... I'd wager a couple bucks that they outnumber the ones who do.
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May 10, 2013 01:27
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You would never in a million years see anything come out of my shop that looks like that. I wish I had a customer spending $250k on a build too.
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ultimateforce posted:You would never in a million years see anything come out of my shop that looks like that. I wish I had a customer spending $250k on a build too. $250k you could easily contract the work out to someone else and still make a profit.
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CommieGIR posted:$250k you could easily contract the work out to someone else and still make a profit. They charged the dude $5,000 just for a mid-pipe not including labor. 
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For $250k you could buy a real supercar
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