[s-cars] No dyno for me

[Taka Mizutani]

Damn, that's what happened to the Evo?!?

I see you have a crackberry.....

Taka

On 2/3/06, Joseph Pizzimenti <joe at betterbuildingservices.com> wrote:
>
> Holy fucking Moses.
>
> Can't say much, but congratulations.  Had you actually blown your motor,
> those sparks would have developed into flames and would have gotten
> drastically worse if you didn't shut the car off right away.
>
> Don't ask me how I know this.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Green <jim.green at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:06:54
> To:"djdawson2 at aol.com" <djdawson2 at aol.com>, bhowell at rmi.net,
> 93urs4 at rovershack.com, todnad at comcast.net
> Cc:S-CAR-List at audifans.com, CaptMagu at aol.com
> Subject: [s-cars] No dyno for me
>
> So I was driving along doing 2nd gear pull after 2nd gear pull fine-tuning
> the car. It was running great at 24 psi of boost. I did a bunch of runs at
> this level because my knock light kept lighting up and I couldn't figure
> out
> why. Finally narrowed it down to the coils had to much dwell and were
> tripping it. Cool. So I gave the schrapenalknobben a good turn. Sweet, 27
> psi no knock. Damn, I didn't have the logger going so let's do it again,
> but
> with more boost. Another 1/2 turn later there's sparks shooting out of the
> hood vent. WHOA! FECK, the turbo just let go. Lucky for me the car was
> still
> running, but with a large exhaust leak so I limped it home 3 blocks and
> found this:
>
> http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/20vstage1/P1010199.JPG
>
> http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/20vstage1/P1010200.JPG
>
> http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/20vstage1/P1010201.JPG
>
> http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/20vstage1/P1010202.JPG
>
> The motor seems to be fine, the turbin just snapped off and had its way
> with
> the exhaust housing.  So it looks like I'll be ordering a GT35R:)  Hey
> Hap,
> what size A/R are you running on your GT35R exhaust?
>
> So the moral of this story is, stand behind the cars at the dyno!  We are
> really luck this didn't happen at tomorrows event as it could have really
> hurt someone.  I still plan on going down to MAC to observe, but in a not
> so
> fast faded red Audi....
>
>
> --
> Jim Green
> '89 90tq
> '89 80q
> http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html
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