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Originally Posted by xracerbob
Sorry to see this David. Happens to everyone if you stay at it long enough. When you spun did you lock the brakes up? This prevents anti rotation of the motor as well as makes you a predictable object for following drivers. Seems like a lot of damage from just a spin and possible anti-rotation.
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Not right off, the car started coming around on me and I steered into it, but it kept coming around till I did a 180, then, I guess with the banking it started to straighten out some on it's own and I was trying to help it with steering input, hadn't touched the brakes yet, then as it was coming back, I began heading for the wall, then I turned back on purpose and locked up the brakes to put into a spin to keep it off the wall and that part worked....
I should have taken Rusty Wallace's advice: "When in a spin, both feet in", meaning clutch and brake pedals to the floor....
I had no warning and had not been "lose" or anything, the spin caught me by suprise as it happend so fast with no indication, the rear end just snapped out from under me in an instant and before I knew it, I was completely sideways, probably doing at least 100mph at that point...
I was worried cause it's a pretty good downhill left hand turn and I knew there were at least four cars about a half a straight away behind me.... The flag man did his job and they got slowed up enough to go around me safely,cause when I finally stopped, I was sideways in the middle of the track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The damage may not have been from that, only thing that led me to think that is the valve marks on the pistons.
I've been involved in racing from one type or another since the early 90's and know that things happen and motors blow up and I accept that. I certainly don't blame the manufacter of the parts nor the company that sold them to me, I would never go into any business selling anything for "racing purposes"....
I'm just posting the pictures and info for others to see....
Actually, this motor has served me well,I can't complain, I've been running this engine for almost 4 years now and this is the first time for anything with it.I'm please with the parts and I'm gonna build another motor using the very same parts, new of course.
I've chalked this one to the heading: "$hit Happens",especially in racing...
David
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