[s-cars] Engine completey hosed

[Calvin Craig]

I would think that the flame travel appearing as detonation and therefore
putting downwards pressure on the piston as it was coming up may have caused
the broken up piston.  Too bad we don't have individual pressure monitors on
each combustion chamber :)

--Calvin

  -----Original Message-----
  From: djdawson2 at aol.com [mailto:djdawson2 at aol.com]
  Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:40 AM
  To: calvinlc at earthlink.net; forgied at shaw.ca; s-car-list at audifans.com
  Subject: Re: [s-cars] Engine completey hosed


  Eh...

  As they say, stuff happens.  Having the car flatbedded for 700 miles and
arranging alternative travel for the occupants probably would have cost me
nearly as much as cleaning up this mess.  Part of me knew that when I was
making the trip back home.

  I would agree that the flame travel is what caused the burn... and that it
started with the headgasket.  But I am still wondering why it burned up a
piston.  The damage to my head is very minor... nothing like the pics in the
link that Dave F sent.  I am certain the head is repairable.

  Oh well... I did get 60k fun and fast miles out of it, and I'll get many
more once I get this resolved.

  Dave





  -----Original Message-----
  From: Calvin Craig <calvinlc at earthlink.net>
  To: djdawson2 at aol.com; forgied at shaw.ca; s-car-list at audifans.com
  Sent: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 1:05 am
  Subject: RE: [s-cars] Engine completey hosed


Dave,

Is it possible that the headgasket breached between two cylinders thereby
allowing the flame front to travel from one cylinder to another.  This would
explain the "detonation" because one cylinder would see it as a
pre-detonation event.  I could see how doing that for 700 miles would cause
a problem.  That's the best hair-brained theory I could muster.  Sorry that
this happened to you.  It reminds me of my first engine rebuild I did when I
was 17 and the engine let go when I was 18.  The stupid oil pump bolt had
backed out and I wasn't running an oil pressure gauge.  So I would have
easily been able to fix it in time for just the price of an oil pan gasket
but instead I ruined all the bearings.

--Calvin


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 Holy smokes... that guy's is WAY worse than mine.? Mine is a very small
"line" between 4 and 5.? I'd like to see his pistons, and I'd like to know
why it happened at all.? The headgasket doesn't bother me... it's what
happened to the pistons that makes me scratch my head.

FWIW... it was an all metal headgasket, and I did use ARP studs.

Dave







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From: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>
To: s-car-list <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Cc: djdawson2 at aol.com
Sent: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 8:06 pm
Subject: [s-cars] Engine completey hosed










Dave: Sorry for your loss.? Such failures are NOT uncommon, e.g.:


?


http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/253448.phtml


?


The problem could be a metal/paper headgasket (instead of the later all
metal gasket) or


it could be stretched OE head bolts (I sure Hap will chime in on that
note).? High boost


engines probably need an all metal head gasket and ARP head studs and nuts.


?


But that is just an opinion.


?


Dave F.





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