Fook that lol looks awesome tho

 

Saw those loons last april when I was there, fucking nutters!

 

sat in the back of rainbird's hire car, cruising steadily on the autobahn at 140 with no dramas... 1.6 mariva's rock

Think a 2nd hand lump is the way forward, anyone who know of a 3.0 m3lump, let me know.

 

few on ebay mate

 

thanks for the picture link guido

there looks like there was lots of nice machinery there this weekend (and some fords )

 

Would be cheaper and easier to supercharge an E36 M3 engine than it would be to fit an E46 engine. Cannot see the point for the very marginal gain.

JJ

 

Boring solution to the problem, but none the less the correct solution im sure!

 

Looking at that I'm amazed that the belt timing stayed timed

 

As above, unbelieveably lucky escape in the grand scheme of things!

 

bloody hell thats lucky, i thought it might of just cracked... could it be a torquing issue as it seems to have happened at the end of the thread, ie the bolts just bottoming out and touching the end of the crank and putting it under tension.? did martins break in the same place.?

 

It snapped at the same place as yours did, right? Is it the weakest area of a crank?

 

To fix this obviously it needs a new crank but is it a case of turning the engine upside down & replacing the crank or will the head ect need to come off to be checked for any further damage?

 

Bizarrely Farndon didn't pick up on the design 'flaw' on the OE crank and successfully re-produced it on their not-so-cheap version!!

 

The crank snapped when Mike tried to tighten it - the car wouldn't start becasue it was wobbling, and the cps coudn't sync - so thought it had worked loose.

Few of us off to the castle now, then on track again this evening

 

looks a bit busy today!

 

crikey!

 

Anybody needing a transplant and seeing this will be rubbing their hands with glee

 

Fooook that with all those bikers!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

oi ! thats not very nice....................true but still!

 

Wouldn't that suggest that something more serious was wrong with the crank if it was wobbling ?

 

I've seen people driving around with snapped cranks and only found out they were snapped once removing the crank pulley.. Sounds like this was a similar case here, and a lucky one at that!!

 

You fucking legend!

 

coooooont harsh but true

looks like a training day though, so there won't be any twats in cars to knock them off

if any of them fall off and don't break their left clavicle, i'll have it

 

Any news on who smashed there car up?

Glad to hear whoever they are is ok!

 

It hasnt been said publically yet.

 

Judging by who's been back and posting, the list is narrowing down
Glad people are physically ok though.

 

Classic Paul,

 

LMAO!

Agree the list is getting ever shorter... Hope all involved are ok

 

I've got a fair idea, not that I'd wish it upon anyone anyway but I hope to god i'm wrong in thinking it's one of two people...

 

Just had a chat with Ginge whos with the scouse lot on the off road course and he said the track has been mentally busy....he spun his scooby on one of the fast bends but he luckily didnt hit anything.

also said maybe someone should have checked their oil on there car when everyone else did ..............

Also again just to confirm the people involved in the crash are 100% fine. which is good news

 

jim and his m3? knocked out he bottom end due to lack of oil pick up in the bends from a low level?

 

dont know Nick...he wouldnt say names but said someone should have checked their oil..lol

 

shame if it was something as simple as that but as he never checked it you'll never know.

 

Would be a right fucking wounder if it was simple oil starvation! Hope it's not as the times Jim set sound fucking awesome and he was doing so well!!

 

Well if it was that, the oil pressure light would have come on a fair bit before the noise became noticeable.