What Have You Broken ????

[SuperMono]

I think the ones that stand out are.
Centura:
1. Exploded the alternator with centrifugal force (those old 6s can rev hard).
2. Ripped the trailing arm rear suspension out of the monocoque.
3. Destroyed all the bits that spin in the gearbox.
4,5,6,7...get the picture.

Kawasaki road racer:
Conrod let go and punched holes through every plane of the crankcase, included pushing the gearbox up out of the back of the engine and bending the head.
When I stopped at the end of the straight and was asked what was up, I reached down into the oil in the fairing and picked out half of a gudgeon pin.

[dave289]

Originally Posted by RspecAU

If it's an AU crashing at heathcote that would be it i'm guessing

no thats not what i was talking about .but as least we know that you know how to crash a car.(join the club)

no this was called street fords i think.it faetured ian luff driving school and a few cars.some cars were the red au,blue xy gt,silver xe and a blue eb turbo.

[XA-Coupe]

Originally Posted by dave289

and i thought they'd built those ones ok.

Ford did, the builder of the 'enhanced' engine may have not done the job as well as he should have. Before it became the Mingenator I don't think it broke a thing.

[Whoosha]

Originally Posted by dave289

what the hell do you people do with your cars,i have had a ba stocky six with 130,000 given it a bit,wound it to 200 on the monaro hwy and have never had these sorts of issues.

Drive hard and play even harder I would say :
Kevs puts 400 + blown (s/c) kws at the ground thru a 200kw drive line
Minge.. well he is the Minge and when it did run last time is a 11sec blown (s/c) windsor, who knows what it will be in its latest guise

Originally Posted by dave289

i have a ford dvd with what i think might be your car on it.is this the one or what?

that would be the RedXR8Chicks (Tracey) AU doing a burnout at the nats.. (cause she does better ones than Pinkbits her other half and runs better times : )

[GasoLane]

In a previous life I drove (Rallied) a Prince Skyline GT. It used to go well untill the timing chain let go at 6700 rpm resulting in.

Snapped (overhead) cam.
LOTS of bent valves.
High comp pistons with valve marks on them

[XHUTE6]

My old TX5 gave me no trouble after 325,000kms. dunno about the first 288,000kms.
Dunno about my ute before 86,000 but until 156,000, i've had 2 clutch cables (1 ripped through the firewall.), 1 clutch, a pedal box, a tonneau, 5 poster bullbar, Front left Fender, indicator and left headlight in the one collision with a Roo. 2 new headlights due to the EF/EL Yellowing curse and set of stoneguards because STUPID PEOPLE THINK THE CHEQUERPLATE STONEGUARDS ARE STEPS!!! :

[TEaaron]

Cortina

Clutch
Diff
Cracked chassie
engine mount
altenator
uni joints
rear tyres
bonnet when my engine mount broke
bushes
rear spring fell out once
clutch cable
rubber exsaust mount



off the top of my head.

[Kev_BLNXR8_Ute]

I didnt think tyres would count.....

I forgot 3 engine mounts on the BA

[DBL15]

so far 1 x gearbox on the XR8 Ute

but anything is possible

[drew`SEVNT5]

Originally Posted by RspecAU

We who live in cranbourne race and race hard

As for me my first car was an XR wagon, broke 100's of uni joints front and rear.
My second car was an XC, i blew a C4, borg warner 35 and a single rail 4 speed.
The third car was a EB S2 Spac never had a problem with it and well I guess most of u would now what i have done to the AU 2 gear boxes, 2 diff rebiulds, 1 axel, 1 clutch and 2 front end rebiulds (pannel damage).

Bah! You crannie boys are soft, us Pakenham boys...we are the ones that race hard :p


Alfa Romeo Alfetta Sedan(RWD): 1x Engine, 2x Transaxle gearboxes, 1x Propshaft, Numerous Rubber Donuts for Propshaft, 3x Halfshafts

Alfa Romeo 33 1.5Ti(FWD): 2x Engine, 1x Gearbox

Alfa Romeo 33 1.7Ti(FWD): 1x Gearbox

Alfa Romeo 75 2.5v6(RWD): 1x Transaxle Gearbox, Rubber Donuts Etc...2x Koni Rear Shocks(snapped in half), Bodyshell(off the side of reefton spur will do that)

Alfa Romeo 75 3.0v6(RWD): 1x Transaxle, 1x Donut, 1x Koni Rear Shock, 1x LHF Wheelbearing, 1x Bodyshell(Into pole whilst attempting to drift), 1x Bodyshell(second one, which the first one got reshelled into...smashed into by other people)

Toyota Camry: 1x Head, 1x Burnt no.3 Piston, 1x Auto Trans

VX Wagon(work car, given to): 1x Auto Trans, 1x Airbox(on gas)

VY 25th Anniversary Edition(work car, given to): 1x Auto Trans, 3x Airbox(on gas)

BA XR6T:...erm...ahh...rear tyres? Diff and Trans on the way out

[XA5800]

Okay Not going to mention small stuff, that's Just Part of the game.

Built xy GT- milodon gear drive came apart & bent 16 Manly severe duty valves.
melted soldier in alternator & the diodes fell out, Reving to 8500
Bent a phase 4 rod around the crank , putting a hole in a 4 v head & breaking the bore in a 4 bolt factory block. ( head dropping of valve caused this. Don't use milodon valves, they are not 1 piece. this engine had 430 hp at the wheels & it was 1988

XA GT COUPE BLOWN , 2nd drive after 3 year rebulid broke the Snout of the Crank, bending 16 severe Duty stainless manley valves & marking all eight pistions.

aparantly crank takes 17 tonnes of force to break. This was caused when the car broke traction in 2 gear & vibrated the Throttle return springs of the Carburettor's allowing the roller cam engine to free rev untill crank broke, I looked at the Tacho afeter I had turned the keys off( maybe 2 seconds after crank broke to see is coming down past 8500, how high did it rev? lesson 1 use rev limiter with roller cam, especially if blown. :

Replacement was custome billet crank , corrello Rods & Je pistons , manley severe duty valves & MSD 6BTM with rev limiter. :

Melted two blower pistons & the fire ring in competion head gasket when showing off with a mate in the car & doing rolling burnouts above 7500 with 3.1:1 gears about 200 kph I suppose.The car ran 335/35/15 tyres & had 702 hp. :

Obvoiusly this was on a closed road circuit & I was being an idiot just backing off & nailing the throttle.

I won't mention how many axles diff carriers engine mounts , everytime I broke something I would make the replacement the best I could get.

I'm still having fun. :

[ebxr8240]

Rolled a brand new Falcon back in 70's...
Rolled an Escort in club event and still finished...
Rolled a David Brown tractor.. VERY dangerous !!!
Esp with front end loader full ...
Oh Rolled a forlklift when working in butter factory...
Broken a few axles due to doing heaps of engine conversions...
Broken a few chairs... Lol....
Broken a bone in my little toe..

[Pursuit250]

EA Falcon

Every manufacturing fault related to the EA Falcon

Pursuit 250

My Fault

1 x Clutch (Heathcote)
1 x Diff Yoke (Heathcote)
1 x CV
1 x Front Uni

Manufacturing Fault

1 x Engine Rebuild
1 x Valve Spring
2 x Main Bearings
1 x scissor jack (changing tyre on flat hard surface : )
1 x side skirt (due to collasping scissor jack)

I don't drive the Pursuit nearly enough anymore to break anything else.

[56L]

Pursuit 250

1x left engine mount
1x driveshaft
3x clutches
2x radiators
1x power steering hose
2x swaybar mounts
2x rims
1x front spoiler
4x exhaust valve springs
1x cat converter
1x clutch fork
1x detonating diff
1x gear knob
1x steering wheel
1x window controllers
1x front wheel bearings
1x windscreen
1x door lock

Mostly all my own fault :

[bathurst77]

A string of girls hearts

[Quicksand]

Originally Posted by bathurst77

A string of girls hearts

*boom*boom*...*crash* go the drums

[Rev28K]

Clutch, 2nd & 3rd gear syncros – lasted until 140,000km

1 x front abs sensor

1 x seat retrim

2 sets of “track” wheels.

1 x stop watch, 1 x junky air compressor, 2 x tyre gauges, 1 x lap timer

Expendables (brake pads, tyres & brake rotors)

3 sets of front discs, 4.5 sets of Bridgestone R-spec rubber (RE540 & RE55), 2 sets of race pads (Ferodo then Pagid)

Not bad for a daily driver with countless track days (with times that will keep a stock V8 honest) under it’s belt.

Proves to me that if you get a good car new – keep on top of the maintenance (or get it serviced by enthusiastic specialists) and get advice/parts from people that know what they are doing then fun doesn’t have to cost bucket loads of money. If only my next car will be so reliable and stand up to such "abuse".

[redxm]

XB -broke torque converter in C4, something to do with circlework
put a borg warner manual in it, 2 days later it was out and toploader was in'
engine seized due to lack of oil.
Put a 250 2V in it,
lost count of how many clutches I blew up. In the end i could change a clutch in under an hour, had all the right spanners layed out in the boot just in case
XF engine died at 180K. Threw a GEM engine in that was still going at 600K when I traded it. Did a diff in doing a burnout. Never touched the BW35 apart from oil changes
EF, nothing
AU3 nothing so far
3.0L diesel patrol (work car) broke camshaft into 5 pieces.
another work car,80 series cruiser, broke rear diff housing at Wanaaring (200km west of Bourke)