When we raced kempsey a couple of months ago Glenn P blew his group n eh up Me did a silly thing and lent him my car and we raced it two up, This was fair i thought as my race car was bartered for parts that Glenn needed that i had and he was going to wreck the car. We thought was full of bog but after sanding it back it was repaired properly just painted in body deadner for motokhana's i guess. The engine i run has had a bit of work done to it and the deal is Glenns owns the engine i wear it out and return it When i have my own engine built. We have devolped a freindship that involves a lot of rivalry but when the old fella drove around 600kms to blow his car up on a practice run it was only fair to offer him the opertunity to blow another engine up after all it is his and the only reason he was racing the eh as he spun a bearing in his bellett and i had his spare engine.
Last weekend the eh engine was pulled down and now i think it was not such a good idea to share my car

Might have changed up a bit sooner?
Very sad.

Long as you both had fun.

Cheers.

That looks pretty well BROKEN

the WA guy who built and raced those Bellett sedans (one was orange) said he raced a number of other japanese sedans and the Bellett was the only one which never had a catastrophic engine failure. He re-built them all the same way and they took the punishment better than the others.

Damn hard little buggers to break!!



OZ

his bellett engine developed a noise at noosa and he thought it was all over and work got in the way of repaires and the car was off the road for months and a change of rings and bearings and its out playing again.

Holy crap Did it go bang ? I guess it's work hard, play hard.

B.

JESUS Greg, I have never seen an engine blow up likle that before.
I gave seen rods go through the block etc, never seen a mess like that!!!

no we have in car footage of it it basicly only rattled Glenn new the gearbox was on it's last legs and shut it down when it happend thinking the geabox was all over and rolled it into the pit area . then he was 100 meters short of his site. Then when he decided to try and start it to see if it had enough drive to limp back it was then he knew the gear box was still ok

Never seen one that managed to keep the pistons inside when the rods come loose. Must have taken some real talent to keep them from shooting through the side of the block like the usually do.

I run stock internals with a stock rev limiter (on the 90's engines). The only two things that make me hesitate about lending the car to someone else to race, is:
1. They will beat me with my own car.
2. As soon as I commit to lend the car, it will stop running just to embarrass me.

The 4X engines have weak/poor quality rod bolts. Causing lots of holes in blocks and spun bearings. No idea if this is also common to the 4Z or G engines.