Engine 3 goes pop

[stacy]

Bad luck mate, but you could just as easily be talking about a holed piston because it suddenly leaned out. I\'ve seen 3 hand built VW race engines explode this year when built with some care and precision - you can\'t legislate for everything.

You haven\'t raced or rallied it, but I\'ve run multiple full seasons caning the absolute living daylights out of Pip\'s various engines without an internal problem - the last failure was just the bearings going through after over a season.

So I\'d question whether there\'s a fundamental problem with rotaries (there isn\'t) or a fundamental problem with your WGT engine (there isn\'t).

There may well be a problem with some ancilliaries and my advice would be to go and cry to Pip and ask him to give it a going over and be kind to you.. I\'m guessing he\'s diagnosing a tip seal because compression is down on 1 of the 3 strokes on one rotor from the other. Whatever, again I\'d ask him to be kind and see what the best offer is.

S.

[stacy]

a good mate had a 2nd hand 4.5 cerb a Tuscan and a chimera over 4 years with no problems apart from the day he bought the tuscan which was brand new the accelerator cable snapped.

Reminds me of the day I pulled away from the Lotus dealer in a brand new Elise, and the throttle pedal fell off..

S.

[davyv]

Stacy its not a wgt engine and i have said its nothing to do with the enging builder.
The cars in pips now being rebuilt and i dont understand why i should go crying to him, and him to be kind to me lol what a daft thing to say.

[stacy]

Yes just read through (been away for several weeks). By extention thought we were thus talking about a warranty job - so hardly daft?

S.