Subject	interesting trashed engine we saw once....
Posted by	richk on February 02, 2002 at 11:32 AM
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In Reply To	Agreed ... posted by DamonH 90TT on February 02, 2002 at 11:08 AM
Message	back in my shop days..... some guy calls us up, "i've got a mk4 supra twin and I broke my alternator bracket, can you guys take care of that?" me not thinking about how the 2JZ is laid out forgot that unlike Nissan, there are no brackets per se and on the Supra the alt is bolted right to the block. "yeah sure....shouldn't be a problem" car comes in and the alternator is just hanging there with pieces of the block attatched to it. the block itself has a huge chunk out of it. we couldn't come up with a good way to fix it (ie....something not ghetto) so we pretty much told him he needed a new block. turns out the car had an extended warranty of some sort and we wound up handing the car off to the people the warranty wanted to put a new motor in it. it was one of the oddest things we ever saw and we never could figure out exactly how anything related to the alt could break off a chunk of the block. anyway...i've been waiting/looking for more supras with broken blocks since then....seems to be an isolated problem tho. I've seen crank walked Eclipses, blown up VG30DETTs, leaky head gasket 7mGTE, lots of junk Mazda motors, but only the Mk4 Supra has physically broken its block. rich '91 300ZXTT "Stage 2.5 10psi" 298.5RWHP / 302.5FT-LBS 13.48 @ 105.65 Z32.org
Follow Ups	Selling 300ZX TT was the worst idea in my life!!! - PeterPoland YAMAHA Racing Team 09:28:21 02/02/02 How much boost were you running (in the Supra)? - DamonH 90TT 09:37:48 02/02/02 1.4 bar, if I recall from his post in supraforums. (n/m) - Phil 11:54:48 02/02/02 While 1/4 mile race not more that 1.5 Bar but on race from 6 - PeterPoland YAMAHA Racing Team 14:10:01 02/02/02 Supra is better than Z when modded (I hate to admit this) - timz 10:18:56 02/02/02 I disagree (n/m) - F8IZHIS 10:22:02 02/02/02 Honestly, I'd take a Skyline over either, but the last - DiscNick 10:47:35 02/02/02 Supra/Skyline are not "Sports" cars... (n/m) - Atti2de 12:03:35 02/02/02 Re: Supra is better than Z when modded (I hate to admit this - PeterPoland YAMAHA Racing Team 14:05:57 02/02/02 That sucks dude, but.... Muhahahaha! (n/m) - Jackie Chan (Sideways) 10:41:40 02/02/02 odd.... - richk 10:54:40 02/02/02 Agreed ... - DamonH 90TT 11:08:14 02/02/02 interesting trashed engine we saw once.... - richk 11:32:11 02/02/02 Re: Agreed ... - PeterPoland YAMAHA Racing Team 14:02:17 02/02/02 Supra guys always talk the trash about Z engines blowing up - U ZCREAM (Ridin' on Hubs) 14:12:47 02/02/02 To bad it wasn't JackB who posted this message. (n/m) - DiscNick 10:59:52 02/02/02 so true! so very true (n/m) - AntiHero[seatbelts rock] 13:58:09 02/02/02 must be an exception - BIGBALLS 12:08:59 02/02/02 Re: Selling 300ZX TT was the worst idea in my life!!! - Jason ZTT 13:27:52 02/02/02 Re: Re: Selling 300ZX TT was the worst idea in my life!!! - PeterPoland YAMAHA Racing Team 13:56:47 02/02/02 Happy to hear it >>> - wesman [92TT-less ] 13:43:25 02/02/02 lol!!! (n/m) - DiscNick 14:01:40 02/02/02 lol - BIGBALLS 15:55:41 02/02/02 That sounds like someone else we know ... :D (n/m) - DamonH 90TT 16:16:43 02/02/02 Yeah, lots of fair weather fans here and on the net>>> - wesman [92TT-less ] 16:18:09 02/02/02
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