How to break an engine big style!

[Pete.]

This turbo engine let go a couple of weeks ago on the runway. He was doing about 180mph when it seems the crankshaft broke and it literally burst the engine cases apart with the stresses. I never saw an engine broken into so many parts just from letting go.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Kickstart]

[EXC-Rider]

abit of t-cut and that will be fine
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[Beelzebob]

That's a lot of bits. What bike was it?
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[Drake]

wow, that is pretty epic
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[Pete.]

[Pete.]

[Raffles]

Did the safety pin that holds the gudgeon pin in place fail?
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Awesome wreckage!!

Some chemical metal and a bottle of radweld should sort it.

[multijoy]

How's the subframe?




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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Chain must have been a little tight.

It is rather impressive I must say.
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[Ariel Badger]

Did they charge him for cleaning the track? I was at Prescott a couple of years back when a guy broke a crank on a Brescia Bugatti and dumped oil, when he got back to the paddock they hit him with a bill.
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[Pete.]

No, the track was in surprisingly good fettle even afterwards Wal, they inspected it and picket up all the little bits of engine. At 300 feet a second it's a huge area to disperse even a gallon of oil.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Ariel Badger]

Guess so, he will have been going a lot faster than that poor little Brescia.
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[Sako]

holy shit!

[_Iain_]

I'm even more impressed than when i watched the video of the tractor actually launching the block off!

What precisely causes that kind of failiure??
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[Pete.]

[Timmeh]

The one photo Pete hasn't shown us is the inside of leathers the dude was wearing.

Was there a massive oil stain?

I would poo myself at least 5 times over if that happened to me
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[pepperami]

[Blau Zedong]

Best

Engine

Failure

Evar.
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[Pete.]

Gutted for the guy as it was entered in the UK landspeed records event this month. In with a good chance too as it's already been over 230mph.

Actually, that bike is the UK's fastest Kawasaki - home-built too
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[stevo as b4]

I was going say that looked like it was originally based on a ZZR1100, i recognised the LHS crank cover.

Did he get his money's worth out of it before it went pop though? If it had lots of meetings behind it and had seen 230mph before, then maybe you could arge that it had done enough work in it's lifetime?

Also the non believer's here (sorry to say i sort of am one myself) will say what do you expect, with a fook off big car sized turbo bolted onto a high revving and lightweight constructed already very high performance engine.

And in bike terms something like a ZZR11 is a pretty big and heavy well proven and robust lump. People out there who turbocharge stuff like ZX10R's and BMW S1000R's cannot be expecting reliability unless they have serious mental health issues!

It's not like putting a big blower on a big old Cast iron car/truck engine.

[Walloper]

JB Weld.

Sorted.


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[neil.]

Did they put toothpaste in it to lower the emissions?
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[Walloper]

My arse, the worstest/bestest engine blow.

For the mostest worstest see tractor pulling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCsSVLZ6wCI

Incidentally, according to Reeves and Mortimer, the Dutch language started as a practical joke.
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