As most of you know i got my car on the road in may, its a 1.8cvh engined car and is running bike carbs
Well at the track day spud and i recently attended i was actually quite pleased with how it was performing, it lacked on the main straight but did pretty good around the rest of the track
After the lunch break the track was nice and dry and i had been out for about 20 laps really pushing it, my temp was approaching the red and my oil was that hot it was starting to drop in pressure every lap i did
So i thought the sensible thing to do would be to come straight in and let it cool off
The problem was there was an ariel atom behind me
he was much quicker on the straight but not in the corners so i thought one more lap of annoying this bloke and his expensive car in the corners and then i will go in and let it cool down
Just as i thought that i heard the engine start rattling like mad
I came off and it was tapping its nuts off like none of the tappets were working so i let cool down topped up the oil and drove it home at 1500rpm
Next day i compression tested it and the combined total of all four cylinders was about 60 psi
Im not bothered so dont feel sorry for me as i have done 1600 fabulous frantic miles (the last 60 of which were on track) since i got it finished and have loved every one of em
The engine was in really good nick prior to the trackday too I think i just asked to much of a 20yr old cvh to take that much abuse really!
So the winter rebuild is starting a touch earlier than expected
Bring on the 2lt zetec!
The other eventful moment of the day was when spud pressed the brake and accelerator at the same time at the end of the straight and went off the track up the grass banking!