RomanV wrote:It shows that you're hardcore, especially when you drive to the A&E in the car you were trying to blow up, on three cylinders, because the fourth conrod is embedded in your skull.
Hahaha! Gold, mate. Thats' certainly the southern way to do it!
I've done/seen numerous blowups, Matt Dunn is right, factory carb'd rotaries just can't get enough fuel to the motor to break things, the couple I've seen, one blew a water hose and cooked itself (slowed down.. then stopped!), and the other was helped with a handful of bolts down the carb! (crunchBANGsilence...)
Its funny how hard it is to kill rotaries when you want them to blow, but you'd be driving down the road in 5th at 50km/h, and THATS' when they decide to shit apex seals..
And same goes for k-series, my mate raced his 4K'd KE70 around a dirt track, hit a rock and dropped all oil, 4 laps of valve-bouncing later he finished the race, seized up on the way back to the pits, we let it cool down, duct-taped up the sump, filled it with gearbox oil (thats' all we could scrounge!), did its' next 2 races. That was 2 years ago, and last time I asked, it still serves purpose as a paddock basher for his brothers' kids!
Daily driver: Toyota RunX/Toyota Caldina
Ex: 2x AE101, 5x KP60, KP61, EP71, 3x KE70, KE72, AE70, AE82, 2x TE71, AE90, AE92, ST170, plus 11 Hondas, 12 Nissans, 6 Fords, 4 Mazdas, 3 Mitsis, an Isuzu and a Lada!
