Massive Air Leak

[75coupe]

yeah what was the problem? massive suspense...

[Simon-S14]

Just a suggestion but the tuner could have set rev limit to hard cut at 2000 which would have made it easier to diagnose

[Hanaldo]

Oh hey guise

Just a suggestion but the tuner could have set rev limit to hard cut at 2000 which would have made it easier to diagnose

They may have done this, I'm not sure how they found it in the end, I went in to give them a hand on Friday and they had already found the problem and sorted it out. Just kept me in the dark about it, they must like suspense almost as much as me

I'll post pictures hopefully later today guys, pictures are worth a thousand words...

[gotRICE?]

Ugh dont do this!! SPILL IT!

I bet you had your foot on the gas when you started it right? LOL

[75coupe]

they found that brick you left on the accelerator pedal didnt they....

[t_revz]

So?

[STATUS]

must have been a massive doh moment.... by the sounds of it..

[Hanaldo]

Well... Sort of. Not really. I can't for the life of me understand what happened. I certainly didn't do it. But I can't see how my workshop would have done it either.

Will make more sense when I post photos. Which I can't do yet because I haven't got the car back yet

[DVS JEZ]

Just tell us already. I can already see the tumbleweed rolling across the screen. The suspense has gone

[75coupe]

hay balls?

[wolverine]

tumbleweed

[Manuel Kasko]

hay balls?

His from the central coast give him a break haha

[DVS JEZ]

His from the central coast give him a break haha

Hahaha i'll pay this one. I got back from 14hrs of driving at 3:30 this morning. My excuse and im sticking with it.

[DVS JEZ]

hay balls?

What are u talking about. My post says tumbleweed. Pffft hay balls. Ur a trippa

[75coupe]

thanks for that Jez....

[DVS JEZ]

Why no update on the air leak

[Hanaldo]

Sort of forgot about it with all the other problems now.

Was a huge hole in the cylinder 1 collector on the intake manifold. No idea how it happened. Seems incidental now.

[DVS JEZ]

Explain the hole. Could this have damaged a valve or stick a valve open?

[GTScotT]

Explain the hole. Could this have damaged a valve or stick a valve open?

IE could it have created debris that the motor could have ingested on its maiden limiter bash?

[Hanaldo]

Explain the hole. Could this have damaged a valve or stick a valve open?

Possibly, I imagine when you shatter a cast alloy manifold like that there will be some debris. But I don't know which cylinder the valve problem is on, if it is only cylinder 1 then I imagine the shattered manifold was the cause.

I'm just waiting for my tuner to add up how much I owe them and then I'm going in to get the car home, so I'll post photos in a few hours.

IE could it have created debris that the motor could have ingested on its maiden limiter bash?

Again, quite possible. Thing is, I would expect that shards of cast alloy getting stuck in the valve guides would cause more of a permanent problem than just on full load power runs, ie. bent valves?

Edited May 30, 2012 by Hanaldo