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:when I spun a rod bearing. I spend countless hours and days modding my car when this thing happened with the engine with 5K miles on it . I was going to dyno in a few weeks.
:It was depressing feeling driving home 10 miles with my engine sounding like a rattled can. It has been a 3-4 year project off and on. My only dyno was two years ago which ended prematurely because of bad slipping clutch.
:This will be a third engine pull. First time to do rebuild, 2nd time to replace down pipe melted aluminum gasket and take out broken studs on back of turbo . No room to drill out broken studs on the back of the turbo and the firewall.
:And now 3rd time to pull the motor for tear down for spun rod bearing and almost start from scratch. I am going to have SGP do my short block. See what type of damage I have. I hope my block and pistons are okay. Kyle feels my rod bearing clearance spec is a little too tight. It was at .0013 of an inch.
:At least this time, nothing else custom will have to be done. My fuel system is done, FMIC done, guages done. The custom part takes the longest.
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:I am having my cable disconnected to cut back expenses. The short block is not going to be cheap.
:I hope to be up and running by fall to represent and do some good dyno runs with my one-of-a-kind turbo set up.
:Mike
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 **Dynoed at 371.2 rwhp. and 362.3 rwtrq. @ .9 bar on pumped 91 gas no time tweaking 3/11/31/03**
**Dynoed at 411 rwhp. and 452 rwtq. @1.15 kg. on race gas 104 no time tweaking 3/28/03**
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