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Title: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: Ole on October 06, 2008, 07:08:32 am Hey Racers,
Last weekend we had the Bitburg season's finals, the forecast didn't look very good but we had almost the hole saturday for racing. My second pass was a new PB with 11.35@113, that's only 1/100 slower than the car ran in 1974 at OCIR... ;D Sure I wanted to get the missing 1/100, but when I tried the rear wheels blocked in 4th gear at almost 8k rpm... :o Fortunately the car was stable, don't want to think about what could have happened... It first seemed a rod let go, but after dismanteling the engine we saw a broken crank between the center main and cyl. 1...... (http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/594/732/20081005/dyn008_original_800_600_jpeg_2594732_0961b4c55d162075bb431663bdfd5e8e.jpg) (http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/594/732/20081005/dyn008_original_800_600_jpeg_2594732_9d124875f92f2a342c291d40e6b9d954.jpg) Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: nicolas on October 06, 2008, 07:31:32 am damn that is a shame. hope not all is down the drain and that you are planning a rebuild allready. good to hear you and the car are OK as this could have been a lot worse.
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: turtle racer on October 06, 2008, 09:26:38 am What a damage!!!
Good courage has you for the reassembly. Good job dude !!!! ;) Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: Jon on October 06, 2008, 09:43:55 am That's a shame! You were SO close! Hope the heads survived ok.
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: kev d on October 06, 2008, 09:59:14 am Unlucky Ole :o
Still, if you don`t break a racecar your not trying hard enough, eh ;) Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: RedEx on October 06, 2008, 10:29:12 am That's really sad... :-\
Hopefully, it happened during the last season race weekend... Good luck with the rebuild! See you Ben Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: speedwell on October 06, 2008, 10:34:26 am shit what a bad news ole :-\
you're well and the car don't have any damage it's a good thing ;) now put the engine on the wall for souvenir ;) rgd fabs Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: Ole on October 06, 2008, 11:09:19 am good to hear you and the car are OK as this could have been a lot worse. Yes, most important nothing serious happened to me or somebody else. You better break a crank than your neck... :-\ Good courage has you for the reassembly. Muchas gracias! ;D That's a shame! You were SO close! Hope the heads survived ok. Yes, looks like the heads survived. I'm really happy about that :) Unlucky Ole :o Still, if you don`t break a racecar your not trying hard enough, eh ;) Yeah, that's what I keep saying... ;) In the end I've been very lucky 8) Hopefully, it happened during the last season race weekend... Good luck with the rebuild! Right, there could have been a worse timing... ;) shit what a bad news ole :-\ you're well and the car don't have any damage it's a good thing ;) now put the engine on the wall for souvenir ;) rgd fabs Tanks Fabs. Maybe I put some parts on the christmas-tree... ;) :D Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: californiaspirit on October 06, 2008, 12:43:33 pm sorry for you ole! ;)
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: vwcab on October 06, 2008, 15:04:08 pm Yes,that's very sad >:(,it's a very fast car.
Hope you'll be back next season!! ;) ;) Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: lowfastbus on October 06, 2008, 19:27:12 pm Good luck on the rebuilth!
Hope to see you in action again next year. Greets Jelle Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: wolfswest on October 06, 2008, 19:38:07 pm OMFG :o glad to hear that you and the car are okay! Hope you can re-use some engineparts though...
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: Fasterbrit on October 06, 2008, 20:54:25 pm Back luck Ole, but good luck that it was just the engine and not anything more serious as can happen when a motor lets go at 8k in fourth!!!! Take care, matt
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: Russell on October 06, 2008, 22:19:33 pm Ole Glad you and the car are fine.
When us young guys race these old race cars we should expect some breakages, the good news is we can rebuild it faster and better. Good Luck and stay safe Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: 67worshipper on October 07, 2008, 10:06:00 am ole good to see you and the panther is ok ;) youve got plenty of time to rebuild the motor now ready for a return to shakey next season ;D regards barry
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: ESH on October 10, 2008, 04:08:29 am Damn! Shame to see the internals looking like that but if thats what comes of racing the car then so be it, it's what it's built for after all. All the best with the rebuild, see you somtime next year.
Title: Re: Pink Panther's engine - Rest in Pieces... Post by: 65-2180cc on October 10, 2008, 05:35:31 am :o Ouch!
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