- 1. [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: tr4racing@googlemail.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:20:29 +0200
- Hi Guys, bad news about the Canadian IMSA TR8. Yesterday, on Qualifying I lost a conrod. I suppose some major damage inside. I have a big ventilation hole in the drysump pan. It seems that the next e
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- 2. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Kramer <rkramer3@austin.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:40:54 -0500
- Sorry to hear that Chris. Are blocks readily available in Europe? I have a block with only Pistons and rods on it. Never tried to take them out. Yours if you need it, just have to ship it from Texas.
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- 3. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Charlton <duncan.charlton54@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:39:18 -0500
- A Rover engine block ought to be easy to find in Europe. Rover quit making them a few years back and handed off production to Weston-super-Mare. Lots of Range Rovers, Morgans, TVRs etc. used the engi
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- 4. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: "MadMarx" <tr4racing@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 17:07:35 +0200
- Hi Bob, at the moment I just see a hole in the area of #5 and #6 cylinder, down on the oil pan. The block sides seem to be okay from what I see. No idea what has happened to the internals. No water l
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- 5. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: "MadMarx" <tr4racing@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:19:02 +0200
- Yep! The engine is now toasted. Everything except the heads is rubbish now, including the block. Cause were a rod bolt. I stupid man didn't change the bolt just to make sure. As I never found any pro
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- 6. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: John Styduhar <johnstydo@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:44:47 -0400
- --==0340417794209963840== --001a113eebf0ccc646053f28ec25 British Parts International makes a beefed-up alloy 4.6L block. --001a113eebf0ccc646053f28ec25 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <di
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- 7. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: "MadMarx" <tr4racing@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:06:29 +0200
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- 8. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: Duncan Charlton <duncan.charlton54@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:52:14 -0500
- --==1067309326351406911== --Apple-Mail=_12C1085A-7F98-44BB-9C6E-B49EE0F5CF9A Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable charset=utf-8 Chris, The top hat linered blocks are the way to go, from what I
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- 9. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@bright.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:54:48 -0400
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- 10. Re: [Fot] IMSA TR8 lost a conrod (score: 1)
- Author: "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 08:26:17 -0700
- What usually kills the blocks is slight head gasket edge damage that allows hot gasses to get forced around the liner on the power stroke to force its way between the liner and block, damaging the bl
- /html/fot/2016-10/msg00128.html (10,836 bytes)
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