The story in Hunglish, sorry for that.

So , we signed up for testing purposes for the Porsche club day in NJMP at Thunderbolt.

We got there of course late and we had no proper inspection as the club required previously from the event, so the inspection had to be done at your place not at the event... . I dont go to details here , but we got on track

I got finally the tarmac springs instead the 280 rated spring on my AST. I have to tell you guys, i have been ridden and drove many coils before, for track guys this set up is absolutely flowless predictable and AWESOME!. So i really feel after 2 years we got a great starting point on the car with suspension.

Second major thing was the ABS delete and the proper 2 master cylinder - brake bias controller pedal box set up.
RKTmotorsport fabricated for me with my original pedals that set up with tilton etc parts. Although my pads are absolutely not designed for this type of set up, the brakes are ridiculously precised and predictable. No fading no other issues. You feel the dust under you feet on the surface. It is ridiculous!

Summ it up, On stock tire size (2 year's old R888"s) and 3500 lb race weight my car handles spot on.

The Porsche club put me in the black grupe, which i was pretty mad. I previously told them , i have 245 whp and 345 wtq with my tire size and 3500 weight. I do not want conflict on track because of that.
And boy they were right! I got passed maybe 4 times and from always the same cars. But the grupe was really like 20 cars or more. All on slicks etc. Also that was my first time ever i saw that track.

BUT here comes the sad part. after the session 2 my connecting rod in the 4th cylinder gave up and blew up the engine. There is 1000 reasons why it could happen. Can be premature failure, before connected to previous tuner failures to too much limp mode some reasons -boost etc. But it happened what can i do?

I got called immediately from RKT motors to bring the car back for analysis. SO i took some picture before i left i will put the below.
The spark plugs looks like brand new and looks like nothing else is damaged besides the block.

Time to build the real rally engine and leave the stock behind. From the process i will post pictures and so. But if something confidential i will keep it ... sorry guys, shop rules are shop rules !

so here is the damage from out side:



this is how probably looks inside LOL /evo 8 engine parts/


and here is some pictures and video from the event what we was able to do with my wife.:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6KJ...el_video_title


Thanks for reading it Rob!


PS my new pads for rally new york for next weekend will be here tomorrow. Only sad part is i will not be ab;e to run it
BUt looks like i got sponsorship from Essexparts.com and my new pads are....

The CL 's !!! you got to love French

 

sorry to hear, and good luck with the build! keep us updated on it

 

Sorry to hear! What do you evo 8 parts?

 

nothing, that was just there to explain to my wife, and her girlfriend how possibly look like my car engine right now inside . Since i am the first evo X in the shop with blown engine , there was no other choice to show it to them.

 

wow man, you got that ripped apart quickly. I'm sure you'll be back together in no time. Good luck and I hope I see you back out there soon!

 

After you left, people were commenting on how skilled you were to immediately drive off line, eventually onto the grass and not soak the track in fluids. Good luck with the rally motor build!

 

thanks , now im blushing.

 

yikes - sorry to hear, really. at least it's an excuse to get a fully built motor

any word on what happened? it wasn't too much power you were pushing - something is going on with the connecting rods? https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...g-rod-1-a.html

 

well i dont push too much power , but i had 29 PSI peak boost and hole around 20+
So the boost is the real enemy here i guess.
We working on the engine plan already.

 

To send a rod through the block like that at those power levels something was definitely up with the car!

Hope you get it sorted soon, best of luck.

Sam

 

Very sad, I will go buy rods and pistons today.

 

thanks!
it is very common in rally engines the blown engine, specially the bone stock ones. Smarter guys saying it has to do something with a restrictor we have. the biggest is 34 mm....

anyway we starting to order the new parts end engine and the build start this saturday.

here is few more picture from the carnage:

 

This just means you get to come back bigger, badder and stronger now right? GL, can't wait to see some more images and info from your races.

 

never mind ... the sky looking sunnier now

 

thanks