The "What is it and where did it come from game"
 

This came out with my magnetic drain plug today. Best guess is casting flash off the block. But the engine has 100k on it and like 15+ track days. Kind of weird for it to be dropping off now.

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steel?

Its magnetic.

Block booger.

the extra metal that made it 1.6

it's grown into a 1.8 man now

:dealwithit:

I had tons of that type of stuff in my block when I built it. I ground it all out though.

No fracture point. It looks the same on all sides. its kinda weird that it fell of finally.

Glad I had the magnet, though it probably wouldn't fit through the screen.

You should think about investing in some moisturizing cream for those hands. I personally like the Neutrogena "Norwegian fisherman use this shit on the north sea in January, and it keeps them silky smooth" formula.

Hand Cream - Original | NEUTROGENA®

It's reasonably priced, not terribly greasy, and works as advertised. Your domestic partner will thank you.

Or dish gloves. Dish soap does a number on my hands and makes my eczema fire up.

I'm more of an "O'Keeffes Working Hands" guy.

hand cream?

you should introduce him to soap first

Clean hands are overrated. I work on my car like 8 times a day. They get dirty every time.

How do we get a linus smiley up in here.

I'm bringing gloves and hand sanitizer to MRLS :giggle:

Only on MT.net, when asking about a random glob of magnetic steel, you get advice about moisturizer. :party:

Could be steel or cast iron, though

The original message I replied to was "piston". To which I replied magnetic.

Gotcha, missed that question edit.

I replaced my magnetic plug with a plug broached and threaded for a 1/8NPT temp sender. This thread makes me a tiny bit nervous.

Crush it up into bits, add it to some fresh oil, then send it to blackstone and see how they react :)

I should just send it in complete.

There could have been more of these, i haven't searched through my old oil.

the 1.6 is trying to tell you something

Weight loss bro.

I've got like 5 more track days this year to make it through. And then another 10 next year probably before I will have the 1.8 ready. This thing is a champ.

But then you don't get to see what blackstone writes when they get a sample that makes no sense. Their notes are usually so friendly and conversational.

I should throw in some gold flake while i'm at it.

I'm telling you, it's cast flashing from the block. I had a couple just like it. They were hanging on by a thread, and wouldn't show much if any evidence of breakaway. Clean it with brake cleaner, rinse it in water, and in a day or two it will be a bright orange rust. Cast rust color.

Did you ever take the pan off since you bought it from Martin? Or just the head

Head only

+1 on casting flash. I found this in my old engine a couple years ago:

WTF, why did it make my photo tiny?

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Let's try this one:

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OK, I don't understand what they've done to the forum.

--Ian

the [img]yourimagehere[/img] tags no longer work. Its stupid.

You have to use the uploader

lol seriously?

e: still works for me. Just have to put a ? after the file type so the perpetually broken, never-going-to-get-fixed uploader doesn't butcher it.

http://www.trackspeedengineering.com...ducts/247.jpg?

Ahh, yes. But then it doesn't rehost. Which I like, backups are good.

Seems like the rehosting is somehow broken.

@IB Nolan

A true B6 never knows when to die!

Mine has also been a real trucker while I've gotten my VVT swap ready.

I can't imagine you've done anything worse than when that engine was in laz. The rally cross was a swamp full of rocks. His friend Andy drove it into a ditch, and we did 2 seasons of track days on it.

Other than boost, jumping it into a ditch, and like 30k miles.

I somehow doubt that IB's servers are more reliable than Imgur's servers, where all my images are hosted.

I like redundancy :)

I think its safe to assume its a chunk of block casting.

I'm not going to do anything about it. If this motor goes I'm done for a while. Don't have the time to do a rebuild myself, or the money to pay someone else.

I do. I've lost way too much content over the years to various free image hosts stitching to a paid model. When IB started hosting, that was a good thing.

keep the hand sanitizer away from me! I hate that shit!

This guy knows whats up.

OK, let's test this:

http://www.codrus.com/miata/mystery/mystery2.jpg?

Yay, it works. Stupid re-hoster.

--Ian