sweeet... *drool*

 

I participated in the annual Road America - March of Dimes Driving event this year...

The event was an automotive massacre of (almost) epic proportions. Before the event even started my friend Chuck finished building his Ford Mustang SVO (4 cylinder turbo). After a test drive he spun a rod bearing rendering it unfit for the track. So he took his ‘winter beater’ which is a Ford Mustang 5.0.
-At the track a Honda S2000 broke loose and smashed into the barrier totaling it. It wasn’t even his car. It was his friend’s car.
-A Toyota Supra came off the track and parked. After his brakes cooled for a bit his front rotor cracked nearly in half.
-Randomly, a parked Chevy Corvette started on fire.
-At the end of the 3rd of 4 sessions I spun a rod bearing rendering my car unfit to drive above 2k rpms.
-Chuck’s Dad smashed into a barrier with his 05 Ford Mustang.
-A Porsche Carrera swiped a barrier and another Porsche blew some engine seals and it was spewing smoke.
So, to get my car home I had to keep the rpms below 2k (which means I could exceed 45mph) otherwise I could have thrown a rod through the side of the engine block and caused even more damage.

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I'm guessing you spun a bearing because of the age of the motor? And not a driver mistake I hope.

 

wow that sucks i wonder if my neighbor was there he races his miata there he's pretty hardcore but scared himself and his wife about 2 years ago when he smashed into a barrier at road of america so now he takes it alittle bit easier.

 

that just sucks. i don't know what else to say

 

ouch! I'm sorry to hear about your car Dano. Oh yea, and sucks to see a s2k & a porsche all smashed up. Hope you get your car back on the road soon.

 

Sucks to hear. But that Midori Hatch is sex. I plan on stealing it from whoever it belongs to.

 

Sucks to hear, and dang I want the projection housings out of that S2K.... Shame to waste them.

 

Yeah, it had been making some noise on cold start ups that wouldn't go away until the engine was warm and I brushed that of as valve chatter or piston slap during cold start up. That noise very well could have been a bearing saying I Love You. And since I didn't say it back she left me.

When it died I wasn't excessively revving or anything. So I'm attributing her death mostly due to age. I'll post up a video of the last minutes of my rod bearing...

 

Video of right before the bearing spun:


When I accelerated there was a pitch grinding noise and then you can start to hear it knocking.