Friday 18 February Fille and myselfe went down to DTE Racing to get another go in his dyno.
We borrowed a friends Chrysler Van, that for the occation was equipped with really old tyres for summer use only.
The last bit of the road to DTE Racing consists of gravvel in summertime, but now its winter in Sweden,
so now the last mile or so was a mix betwen ice and snow. Quite exciting.
Me and Fille starting putting the engine up in the dyno as soon as we got there.
Dr Ernie was busy all friday night and couldnt get there until saturday morning
so we had all evening on us to get everything right in the mounting.
Ernie arrived saturday morning and we started out with a great brekfast.
After brekfast Elmer and Muppen came by,
so then we went out to the dyno and did a last check on everything before warming her up.
Everything started out fine and it seemed as a small task to reach the 1K+ hp we were aiming for.
Unfortunally a loose vacuum line to the BOV caused big confusion and by the time that was sorted out
it was already saturday evening and we were all tired.
Puting Fille in the dyno-room with a camera was one way of checking werther it was the BOV that caused the problems.
Sunday morning we started out cracking the intake (again)
Last time we did it was during a race. That time it was in the bottom end.
This time we cracked it exactly the same way but in top end this time.
We went to Hellman and borrowed his AC/DC Tig and Muppen put it together again.
With the newly repaired intake in place we all felt the clock was ticking,
and we had to start getting som figures soon. Or else we could just start taking the engine out of the dyno at once.
As fas as I recall we set target boost to 44psi, but this time Ernie awaited the boost before he let the dyno do its autorun.
That caused the turbo to become completely mad. At 6600 rpm we had 42 psi boost wich is way too much that early.
The head melted, the engine block melted, the oilpump filled all bearings and channels in the engine
with parts of melted aluminium and pieces of the gasket.
Even if it broke down one thing is for scertain: The engine is more or less mad!
As we entered the dyno room, there was a water-jet from the oil leveler hole,
and as you can see there were large amounts of water in the crank house.
All bearings and channels were full of aloy and other foreign objects.
Luckily both the head and the bottom end were repairable.
If it wasnt for the fact that Im right now suffering from a mega-cold
the engine would be put together right now.
-on the other hand, having this cold gives me the oportunity to share this with you.
/Bjorn
