Breaking my broken all steel Pinto. Block, drysump pan and 2 rods and pistons are destroyed when it threw no.1 rod. The remainder is not too bad and pics are on the FB Pinto crossflow page.
Breaking my broken all steel Pinto. Block, drysump pan and 2 rods and pistons are destroyed when it threw no.1 rod. The remainder is not too bad and pics are on the FB Pinto crossflow page.
why did it throw a rod? bearing failure or something else?
I would be very sceptical about using any part from a blow up engine, certainly fom the head down. I have experienced it first hand in the past and parts can be damaged that's not visible to the naked eye.
Undergeared at Brands 50 years of the Escort, 8k revs halfway down pit straight and blew engine 2 laps from end of the race. Dry sump Oil system unable to remove the bubbly oily air from the good stuff.
PEC rods and I'm informed they don't sell singles so not much use. Same engine did 3 hours plus at Spa in 2017 but correctly geared for 7.4k revs down the straights.
Is the dry sump pump available it's only for mocking up so does not need to be usable
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Was it defo a rod failure tho? Pec rods are capable of mucher higher sustained revs than 8k, where did it fail? and did the engine fail just as you lifted off from 8k?
Rod nipped up with a rattle, slowed up, got louder then big explosion as it exited the block taking the jack shaft and dizzy with it. Crank bent and no. 1 big end burnt, belt came off, pistons kissed valves and bent 6 of them. Oil pressure never dropped but I should have shut it down as soon as I heard the noise but noisy faster cars were passing and was caught in the moment. Looking for a cossie crank to rebuild the thing.
Doesmt sound like there would be much of any use to rebuild. Cossie crank is probably unecesary and expensive, Pinto crank is strong enough.
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