How I killed my car.

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Just thought I'd mantion this:

For those of you that remember my little run in with a large flood last November. I got an email today from the chap who bought it to repair. I'd destroyed 3 of the 4 con rods, and annhialated all the piston rings.

Glad I didn't try to fix it myself now!
 
Ouch, that takes some talent to get that much water up the spout!
 
Thanks to a really well designed ait intake kit (it was actually very good in terms of flow) my air intake was only about 6" off the ground behind the wheel arch, so very much my own fault. [rant] Although the road is the main road in and out of Bovington (1 of 2, the other one floods even more easily) and is not drained at all it seems. The council prefer to spend their money on their fat pay cheques rather than services for the people who fork over the green. [/rant]
 
Did something similar. I had bodged together a twin stage intake which I thought was pretty much foolproof until I tried driivng swiftly through a flood which was a bit deeper than expected. Hydraulically locked the engine and you could literally see the water swishing around inside the cylinders. Managed with the help of friends to get the engine turning over again and did another 16k on it before one of the conrods snapped and flailed through the block, writing the engine off.

The car had another lump dropped in and is still running nicely today. I've since taken a deposit on it and is now waiting to be collected by a friend.

Few pics of the damage:

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll96/willenium2k4/DSC01498.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll96/willenium2k4/DSC01518.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll96/willenium2k4/DSC01531.jpg

(In this last one what you can see through the upper hole is daylight)

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I have a paperweight that started life as part of the (EN40B nitrited steel) crankshaft out of an original '60s Mini Cooper S :whistling:
 
didn't see your original thread through from what you say I am guessing your old dead car was a vauxhall of some sort?

Mate killed an old Astra GTE many years back in what is best described as a deep puddle due to low air intake and another killed a Vectra in a shallow Ford.
 
Lynton said:
didn't see your original thread through from what you say I am guessing your old dead car was a vauxhall of some sort?

Mate killed an old Astra GTE many years back in what is best described as a deep puddle due to low air intake and another killed a Vectra in a shallow Ford.
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A shallow Ford what though......:naughty:
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I have a paperweight that started life as part of the (EN40B nitrited steel) crankshaft out of an original '60s Mini Cooper S :whistling:
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You must need to hold a lot of paper down in a hurricane!

Having spoken to someone about getting a long-stroke crank machined from an EN40B billet for my Imp, nowadays it would cost more than a new 300mm f/2.8 lens (from Canon, Nikon or Sony).
 
I know someone who had a Citroen BX which had the famous Citroen gas suspension. He was driving into a flood, but for some reason stopped and turned the engine off. Possibly got out to help someone else. As a result, the car dropped on its suspension. When he started it again, intake was now underwater and it took a big slurp of di-hydrogen oxide.
 
To Will: Nicely done mate...I didn't quite manage that!

To Lynton: Not a Vauxhall mate, a Fiat with a daft induction kit on it.

To Mark: You killed a Landy? You're hardcore mate :D
 
A friend of mine killed his 110. He followed me through a lake on an off road course despite seeing the water come half way up my windscreen. It didn't occur to him that I had a snorkel and he didn't. When it conked out in 4 foot of water we made him attach the tow rope.
 
Mike Jackson said:
A friend of mine killed his 110. He followed me through a lake on an off road course despite seeing the water come half way up my windscreen. It didn't occur to him that I had a snorkel and he didn't. When it conked out in 4 foot of water we made him attach the tow rope.
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lol, what a genius :clap: :lol:
 
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