Pictures of your messed-up shit.
 

I saw a couple of Scott's photos in the other thread, and I know the rest of you have some good ones.

These are mostly from my karting days. 7 complete rebuilds on that motor in 18 months made for some great photos. :)

Not normal, but not uncommon. This strut holds the seat to the chassis.
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Not normal wear.
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Don't get run over by other karts :bigtu:
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This was caused when I ran WOT for a half a lap with no header during an endurance race. Thin cylinder left the piston 3" from exposed air; exhaust ports must have dragged in some extra air. extra air = cracked piston
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See something missing?
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I don't know how this happened. That's the flywheel and clutch, and the starter motor gears on the left.
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Don't run over other karts :bigtu:
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These two are from when the motor spat up a circlip and seized.
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We think this happened from throwing a chain and cracking the pin. This pin holds the two halves of the crank together, with the rod in the middle. The rod from this incident is now the keychain for the trailer locks. It made interesting noises.
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I wish I could take credit for this one.
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There's an entire intake manifold and reed valve piece that's simply missing from that photo:
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These are all from a single kind of motor, an IAME Leopard, which is a single-cylinder 125cc 2-stroke. Recommended redline is 15,000rpm, but anyone who was competitive was spinning them deep into the 17,000rpm range. Lifespan at those RPMs was 3-5 hours between full rebuilds, with a rebuild costing around $600.

i only messed up my shit once. too bad i didn't have a camera when it was laying upside down.

the day before
http://www.miatamx5.com/auto-x/pics/...5/IMG_0390.jpg

http://www.miatamx5.com/crash/machine_flipped_015.jpg

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TurboTim and I with the help of 2 others that stopped flipped the car back over and I drove it the 8 miles back home like that.

I'm being a picture whore today.

2001 CBR 600F4i + Invincible 17 year-old with 10 years experience = ...

Before:
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After:
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...s/DSC00998.jpg

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Me, after 6 hours of the most excruciating pain I've felt thus far in my life. I advise against getting road rash to anyone that is contemplating it.

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After that, my mom forbid me from having a motorcycle until my 18th b-day, so I got the Miata. Then my dad bought me a Ducati for my birthday, since he missed his riding buddy. Now I wear a leather, better-fitting jacket instead of the textile one that was slightly too big, and I don't do wheelies except on my dirtbike in grass.

OUCH! fuck that! i walked away without a scratch, thank you harddog and willans

Paul, you didnt flip at the gap did you? Sounds very similar to a friend of a friends story.

I think the gap is more than 8 miles from home for him.

no. just went out to charge my cell phone cuz i lent the house charger to the girlfriend. happened around Ewing, NJ.

94 probe GT, t3/t4 at 14psi. transmission locked up in 3rd gear, and my comp stage 5 didnt slip, snaped #3 rod in half, piston came up and hit the head. still have the piston and half the rod on my desk next to me.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/674/pict0512zi3.jpg
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jesus what did you do with the car? strip it down for parts and get another shell? What was that headlight setup on your old car?

Man paul i've seen those pictures before, what a horrible crash. Did you just lose the ass end, drop a tire off the road or what?

parted it out, kept the motor and trans with 235k miles and put it in the miata you all see in my avatar for another 45k miles before swapping it into my black 95.

the headlights were just 2 sets of projector driving lights. they were actually responsible for the accident. since they were so deep into the headlight opening they provided no peripheral light. i didn't see a deer running out until it was right in front of the car. missed the deer but then was so fucking distracted i didn't see i was going into a 90degree turn. launched it off a pile of dirt and rock and it came down on the roof.

Do i see you still have those headlights in the new red one in your avatar?

no freaking way. that car runs the Hella 90mm light modules as found in the Moss Lowpro kit but with real HID setup from a Bimmer.

http://www.miatamx5.com/lowpro_13.jpg

Hit an F-150 in the rear axle (shithead ran a stop sign). I slid about 80 feet (was going just "slightly" over the speed limit) <G>. The shitty thing was that the car was a near perfect '92 with only 40K miles on it. One of the nicest Miatas I have ever seen. The great thing about it was that the asshole had his Harley in the back of his pickup truck (he didn't want to rock it by actually stopping at the sign) and that shit went flying into a ditch when I hit him.

http://www.lightweightmiata.com/misc/redwrecked.jpg

All this destruction makes me cringe.

Man you guys can tear some shit up. The carnage is sickening.

lol. I love when people disregard the safety and property of others because they live in a fantasy world.

https://www.miataturbo.net/~web1_bra...ne/hot_cat.jpg

https://www.miataturbo.net/~web1_bra...ine/smoke5.jpg

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yea I think my next investment is going to be a roll bar, thanks for the pictures.

Can't take credit for this one, either. This was a nasty stick.

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yeah.. I think I am going to follow you on that one

Oops, didnt look at his location

:crx:

When you are ready, lets call and ask for a discount for two.

which one and from who?

Savington: what cilinders you using?
had some similar shit happen to my sprint-scooter

man. wtf is wrong w/ u guys???

a pack of raccoons pwnd my shit once dude i know how you feel luckily i lost my drivers rear tire while i was hydroplaining on there entrails, and went into a friggin farm fence taking out a few fence posts while i was out it. Luckily me and dad got her out and all the pannels beat out pretty well, and i wanted to see how she would look black anyway. ;) But the absolute best part was that since i showed up at 7AM the next day and told the farmer about it and had it all fixed by 8 or so he wasn't even mad i pwnd his fence. I also learned that you need to check the air in your spare tire cause most of the time that bitch is flat :td:

My first wreck ever was a bitch running a red making a left destroyed my wonderfull 94 camry xle and her shitty ass buick. :td:

All I know is that they AREN'T Nikasil. The class doesn't allow motor modifications, so everyone runs stock cylinders. You could probably call the importer, Jim Russell Karting for the US and Italian Motors for Canada. It's an IAME Parilla Leopard.

A little over three weeks ago:

http://patrickschmidt.baked.net/albu...cident_001.jpg

http://patrickschmidt.baked.net/albu...cident_013.jpg

more here

http://patrickschmidt.baked.net/albums/Bike-Accident

I walked away with a broken elbow and a tweaked back. I should be dead.
Some moron pulled out in front of me. I hit his driver's side wheel and went tumbling over the hood and about 30 feet down the road.

damn dude, what year R1 is it? glad you made it out mostly ok.

you can buff that out

FM has a picture in their scrapbook thing of a valve embedded in the piston, its pretty gnarly, but not worth looking through 762 images :td:

I've done the opposite:

From:
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To:

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It was an 04

Try this
http://patrickschmidt.baked.net/Bike-Accident

Holy crap there are some crazy messed up things in this thread.. For the riders, glad you guys are ok. Damn flying 30 feet.

my roommate's dsm

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...ire/talon1.jpg

thank god your roommate doesn't let you use the garage.

Same shit happened to me except I hit the windshield at a slight angle and then hit the rear quarter of a minivan about 10 ft away. The twisting motion of the windshield impact ripped 3/4 ligament on my right knee. My knee was the only thing damaged though. Here is a nice post op pic of my knee (does this count for broken parts?)
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gouldmab/knee/DSCI0100.JPG


I don't have any pics of the bike because I never saw it again. I got my mom to drive out to the wrecker to look at it, insurance totalled it, and I got a check in the mail.

i know you, im white94pgt on mx6.com

Holy... what he said.. :eek5:

i used it, my car just happened to not be there at the time. luckily his insurance was nice enough to compensate for most of the mods that were on the car. we're now using a different garage, this time with non-ghetto wiring ;)

oh, cool. small world isn't it? :)

Sorry for the fuzzy shots, the macro on my dad's camera is screwy. I'll post clearer pics soon.

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Amazing what 15 miles will do.

Poor turbo. Was your oil pressure too high or your oil drain too slow? Or was the "seal" just blown?

Pics are supposed to show the large sharp chunks missing from the inside edge of the turbine blades. This area was *clean* and dry before the install. There is significant radial play in both ends of the shaft, about 1/4 inch. I believe some object attempted to go thru the turbine, chewed up the blades, F'ed up the bearings and the oil rings. If I plug the oil drain fitting with my finger and blow on the pressure hose, I can easily blow thru both ends of the turbo.

Ohhh i see it now. There was soo much oil i couldn't really tell from glancing at it. Almost looks as bad that as mazdaspeed miata that detonated it's turbo into a bunch of pieces.

My buddy's old '02 WRX turbo. Forced Performance Evo3 16G. Our best guess is that extreme oil temps cooked the bearings and bent the shaft a tiny bit, and the rest is history. There was not a lot of shaft play, but the shaft was easily .100 out. It was messy.

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if this thread is still open in a few months, you all are likely to see my oil soaked post-turbo ka24e motor in this thread, if i finish the miata by then:bigtu:

what's amazing is that the mystery piece(s) of metal in question that damaged the turbo did no real damage to my motor after bouncing around in cylinders 3&4 for the initial 15 miles or the following 70 miles to Bruce's house to disassemble it all. some ping marks in the top of pistons 3&4 where it would have sandwiched it against the head where it's flat at the 2 sides. turns out i used a faulty compression gauge and when we got a good one of there the results were 179-185psi across all four cylinders when the motor was cold. we couldn't start it as no electronics or fluid lines were running to the motor.

http://miatamx5.com/pingedhead.jpg

So the initial measurements of ~120 front two ~90 back two with the damaged cylinder head are inaccurate? Did you try the accurate gauge on the damaged head before removing it? Or the inaccurate gauge on the new cylinder head? (if the bad gauge says 120 across the engine with the new head then maybe the old head isn't as bad as it may be)

I'm afraid to ask, but what sort of chunck of metal are in the front side of your cat?

Dead 1.6 diff split up front by the pinion ring.

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no img brgracer, red X of doooom

I see a red square, green circle and blue triangle :ugh2:

Not exactly doooom, but no image. hehe

oh that poor diff, the things he must've gone through...

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the restaurant i used to work at:

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you ran into a building? stay the fuck away from me dude.:gtfo:

no, the first is just an accident i had. the other one was someone pulled into a parking space and "hit the wrong pedal"

^ LOL

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I hate F-150s. That's the second one to back into my car.

Torsen :crx:

As seen here

https://www.miataturbo.net/forums/at...1&d=1194564596