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Dales Cannon

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So this boys and girls is why you don't overrev an ice on overrun. Especially an engine known to have issues above 7,000rpm with stock rods and pistons.

Looks like the rod bolts stretched and that allowed the conrod big end to fret, the bolts then let go and the piston and the exhaust valves made mad passionate banging. Then all the rest of the conrod fell out the bottom taking the oil pump with it.





Once you fit forged pistons and rods to the Duratec you can go much crazier. Gordon Murray's ran 250bhp at 8,000rpm and you can buy from Cosworth a naturally aspirated 2.0 that revs to almost 10,000 rpm and 375bhp. Makes you appreciate the Honda F20 straight from the factory.
 
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Haakon

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That Duratec seems like a good engine. I've only had brief experience with my FILs Mazda 3, but I like the way it drives. Pretty torquey for a modern NA.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
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I am going to cam the xr4 but first a new driver's seat which results in a passenger seat so we can get some youngsters having a drive!
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
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At the recent service of the M they found that the spurving bearings in the panametric pham were out of whack and it had to go into hospital to have them fixed. I was given a new loaner X2Motorsport. Not my cappuccino but when I had a good look under it I discovered that BMW QA completely overlooked that the assembly line forgot to fit the driveline! Lazy bastards. (yes I know the new ones and twos are minis...)
 

Haakon

Keeps on digging
What the hell broke again???
THE TURBO ENCABULATOR

For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring to
perfection the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse
reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of
automatically synchronizing cardnal grammeters. Such a machine is the Turbo
Encabulator.
Basically, the only new principal involved is that instead of power being
generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial
interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance. The original machine
had a base plate of pre-amulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic
casing in such a way that the two Spurving bearings were in a direct line with the
panametric Pham. The latter consisted simply of six Hydrocoptic Marzelvanes so fitted
to the ambiphastant lunar wane shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.
The main winding was of the normal Iotus-o-delta type placed in pandermic, semiboloid
slots of the stator-s-every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible
tremmy pipe to the differential girdle spring on the UP end of the
grammeters. Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to feed
into the rotors a mixture of high S value Phenol-hydra-benzomine ... and 5%
remonative tetra-iota-hexomine, Now, as you may remember fromyour high school
days, both of these liquids have specific parastocities given by the formula P=2.5C
times 6.7 over N, where Nof course is the di-ethical evolute of retrograde temperature
phase disposition and C in that formula being shall-mondolaze annula grid
coefficient. Now, initially, Nwas measured ... and here's where we had a great deal of
trouble ... with the aid of a metapolar refractive pillfromator. And, of course, for a
description of that ingenious instrument, that saved us from a great deal of work, we
referred to Dr. Elie Finklestein's book, (Zeit Shrift Ver Elektro Techruistadssher Donna
Blitzer." That was Finklestein's 7th volume. But, up until now, nothing has been
found to equal the Transcendental-hopper datascope, and, for that, our engineers
referred to the Peruvian Academy of Scatological sciences, which I believe was ... yes it
was June 1939 ... that meeting.
Now, I understand that this description may sound a bit complicated to the layear,
but even experienced electrical engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubbing
together a regurgitive pearlwell and a suppernative wanel-sprocket, Indeed, this
proved to be a stumbling block to further development. We were at our wits end, until
in 1944, it was found that the use of anhydrous nagling pins enabled a cryptonastic
bowling shim to be tankered.
The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral-decommutator failed,
largely because of a lack of appreciation of the large quasi-speestic stresses in the
roppitt bars to the spam shaft. But, when it was discovered that wending could be
prevented by a simple addition to the Iibbing sprockets, almost perfect running was
secured. The operation point is maintained, as near as possible, to the high-frequency
REMpeak, by constantly frommaging the bituminious sprandles. This is a distinct
advance over the standard nibble-sheaf, in that no dram-cock oil is required ... once the
phase detractors have been remissed.
The Turbo Encabulator has now reached a high level of development and it is
being successfully used in the operation of Nofertrunians. Moreover, whenever a
pharescent score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a
drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusodal depleneration.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
What the hell broke again???
It had an oil leak where the level sensor bolts to the block, very common on all the '55 motors. However a neighbour when I was in Rocky used to recite the above long before there was a utube or social or unsocial media. He was a mechanic who specialised in Ovlovs and at the time the automatic transmission was shared with a number of makes and he was at a conference where that was said. Took me years to hear it again.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Haha! Should I tell my mate his '17 M2 will similarly b0rk?
Very likely. He will struggle to see it though without taking the engine plates off*. I assume he didn't have the rear brake backing plate noise? Also possible he will have a diff pinion seal weep. Mine did.

Worst thing is because BMW have such a generous disposition to anything not oem* I have to bolt on my inlet and cat and exhaust again. Missing the kW.
 

Duane

Likes Bikes and Dirt
I hope you like doing maintenance. Watch out for the fuel pump if going on a long trip.

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I don't mind maintenance, I enjoy tinkering in the shed. It's a bit shite for access with lots of fixings to access everything but I bought it with a ton of spares and only 20K kms. Guy was a real enthusiast and worked a lot in the states, buying spares. There is clutches, fuel pump, gaskets, shims, filters, sprokets, pads... just to start with. Enough to keep me going for another 30K+
Spare road wheels, new plastics...all the mods.. Touring gear, luggage, panniers, comms, gps.. really was a setup package ready to go with all the fruit.
He stuffed his hip and had to stop riding, only using it for an occasional short road ride.
I'm only doing weekenders, not enough time for anything else, I'd probably want something lighter for a safari.
 

Duane

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Why this over an africa twin?
It’s the yeti of motorbikes aha
Price, not Toby, $$$
It was a very good price with all the spares and extras, 10K with everything I could ever need, even a brand new Arai. I did test a Honda, it was ok, but to get the same level of gear/extras/2 sets of wheels would have cost double.
I always had a soft spot for Dakar inspired bikes.
 
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