AuSpec Vr4
Probationary Member
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- Feb 25, 2011
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Brisbane,
Australia
Hey guys, please tell me this happens to other people...
I don't know how many of you know about my vr4 and its progress but it has been off the road for a year getting much needed upgrades to turbo/intake side of things. Yesterday was my first time driving the car in over a year, fresh rego and all was going well. At 12am in the morning when heading home from work i wanted to see what the power was like after fitting a new exhaust with 3 mufflers in it to make it road worthy, from 2nd gear 2000rpm i was WOT till 7,000rpm just about to change to 3rd and the pictures explain what happened next. Years of work have gone into this car and had only been registered less then 12 hours ago. The flywheel exploded instantly killing the car, the flywheel separated into three chunks, 1 almost going threw the radiator but also taking out the water pipe/turbo/turbo feed/radiator hose/intake/radiator fan/condenser and has bent the whole front of the radiator support panel forward, bent the lower cross member and the gearbox bell housing was scattered for hundreds of meters down the road along with coolant and oil. bolts snapped in the block, starter motor output shaft snapped from its housing, cut the steel clutch slave line and found the slave on the road. i can't describe how much of a mess it has made and the noise was horrendous. I am speechless, i thought i was at fault with something i had done but i would never expect a flywheel to give way like that. the 6 bolts are still holding whats left of the flywheel on along with the clutch, i hope for my sake the engine is still fine.
I don't know how many of you know about my vr4 and its progress but it has been off the road for a year getting much needed upgrades to turbo/intake side of things. Yesterday was my first time driving the car in over a year, fresh rego and all was going well. At 12am in the morning when heading home from work i wanted to see what the power was like after fitting a new exhaust with 3 mufflers in it to make it road worthy, from 2nd gear 2000rpm i was WOT till 7,000rpm just about to change to 3rd and the pictures explain what happened next. Years of work have gone into this car and had only been registered less then 12 hours ago. The flywheel exploded instantly killing the car, the flywheel separated into three chunks, 1 almost going threw the radiator but also taking out the water pipe/turbo/turbo feed/radiator hose/intake/radiator fan/condenser and has bent the whole front of the radiator support panel forward, bent the lower cross member and the gearbox bell housing was scattered for hundreds of meters down the road along with coolant and oil. bolts snapped in the block, starter motor output shaft snapped from its housing, cut the steel clutch slave line and found the slave on the road. i can't describe how much of a mess it has made and the noise was horrendous. I am speechless, i thought i was at fault with something i had done but i would never expect a flywheel to give way like that. the 6 bolts are still holding whats left of the flywheel on along with the clutch, i hope for my sake the engine is still fine.
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