I\'ll stick some phots up in the thread once I get them off my blackberry but in the meantime wondered if anyone had any words of wisdom?
The engine went at Silverstone on the circuit. I managed to drive it 150 miles home. It had next to no power and I had to keep reving it to keep it going. Once it stood over night I couldn\'t start it again since.
I didn\'t get it compression tested as I don\'t have the rotary ones plus my piston one has broken. :( Lying underneath it and listening with a plug pulled out and it was quite obviously different on the rear rotor and the front sounded \'normal\' as far as I could tell rhythm wise. The plugs all looked normal by the way, grey/white colour.
I managed to find a couple of hours to pull the engine out of the car today and had a look through the exhaust holes at the rotors. From watching the tips as they pass the holes everything looks ok :confused: I was at least expecting one or two broken ones? Is it likely that an edge has gone that I can\'t see?
Need to get myself a 54mm socket and I\'ll start stripping it down. Everything pointed to a tip having gone but I\'m a bit worried now that it might have been something else!?
a couple of hours to pull the engine? how u do that lol..dynamite?
It does sound like the symptons of a lost tip...
Ah, I started the last sunday (i think) and stripped the engine bay but got stuck splitting the engine from the gearbox. Havn\'t had a chance to finish it since. Only needed to remove 6 bolts from the clutch cover and I was away.
Mine too looked ok when looking through the exhaust ports. But when stripped it was quite a mess on the rear rotor/housing. Also had sucked some bits into the front rotor, but in general that one is fine.
So diagnosis through exhaust ports not necassarily the way to go.
Cheers
Ah right,thats good to hear (in a bad way :) ). Glad I\'m not the only ones thats had it lol.