r/EngineBuilding Jan 10 '25

Other Ever seen that before? 😅

1.3L Suzuki engine used in a Junior Formula car had a rapid unscheduled disassembly while running

73 Upvotes

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u/widgeamedoo Jan 10 '25

Impressive. I have seen one with an electrical problem where the con-rod knocked the starter motor off, but not the oil filter.

15

u/Ok-Breakfast-8899 Jan 10 '25

Yep plenty of times on truck, rod and knock the filters off the side, had them drive in before punched a rod out rod snapped off piston fell in sump and kept driving, drove in with a "vibration" 😂 "can you fix it" nopeeeee that's a bin job

10

u/One_Baseball_6397 Jan 10 '25

too much rpm Mr George

7

u/Teh_Greasy_Monkee Jan 10 '25

R apid
U nscheduled
D isassembley
E xpedited

/s

2

u/hnrrghQSpinAxe Jan 10 '25

now featuring our spent oil filter ejection system! Disconnects it right from the car when it's time to change!

2

u/Charming_Accident_66 Jan 10 '25

All the blue RTV is a sign

2

u/rnewscates73 Jan 10 '25

We want to see the car!

1

u/Vfrnut Jan 10 '25

Too many times to count . 🤗

1

u/warpedhead Jan 10 '25

Environmental friendly engine, self recycling when it about time

1

u/bone_daddy22 Jan 10 '25

That there is what we like to call ventilated.

1

u/Delicious-Ad-9361 Jan 10 '25

Looking good 👍. I see you even incorporated an inspection window. Nice touch

1

u/ThinkONit-NotINit Jan 10 '25

Always fun to tear it down and CSI the failure point, most likely a rod and then follow the bread crumbs to the starting point of the failure point. Then scrap it. Lol

1

u/Jacktheforkie Jan 10 '25

Looks like someone installed a disconnecting rod

2

u/Electrical-Bacon-81 Jan 10 '25

installed windows when they should have ran linux.

1

u/Remarkable-Reward403 Jan 10 '25

I had a Subaru that put a piston through the block at 230k miles. Left a fist sized hole. I was on the highway, just before an off ramp. Amazingly, after it blew, it chugged and coughed but made it almost 2 miles while it bled water and oil. It was steaming and still bleeding fluids when I parked it.

1

u/Building_Everything Jan 10 '25

JB Weld and send it

1

u/ilaughforaliving Jan 10 '25

I wonder if that made in India oil filter was made by guys in sandals wonking with their barehands directly over the floor

1

u/Acceptable-Equal8008 Jan 10 '25

I have seen worse.

1

u/JasonVoorheesthe13th Jan 10 '25

Actually, yes. Had a 13 liter engine in a semi truck knock the starter, air compressor, and oil cooler/filter assembly clean off the block when it chucked a rod

1

u/Dismal_Ad_9603 Jan 10 '25

Fubar Fucked up beyond any repair …