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How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 6th, 2010, 4:23 pm
by bushman
Well pretty much, Another_ef, NUT347 and a few other forum members went out for some late night action, back when i had the EL and while the tacho was telling me high RPM, it spun a bearing.... well almost all of them. Rods 5 and 6 did not have bad damage but the rest of the bearings were rooted, and all of the main bearings except for the very last 2 at the back of the block were rooted as well, I dont think i'll be able to get the crank Ground :(

But any way it was a fucken good skid lol :D

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No 3. piston

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No 3. with 2 others u can see the wear difference
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ANd the main bearing caps,

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No 1. Rod cap and bearing


And for those who like the gore, The blocks last way to attack me
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Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 6th, 2010, 5:05 pm
by Rollin
Gozza has some good pics of his previous two engines....

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 6th, 2010, 5:44 pm
by 89.SVO
my old 3.9L that was in my EB had a horrible bottom end knock and low compression. i haven't had the chance to pull it apart yet

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 7th, 2010, 7:15 am
by [Sterling]
90thousand on 1 oil/coolant change. Still goes hard too.
Build ford tough.

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 7th, 2010, 9:34 am
by vegabass
I'm pulling my down at the moment, I don't think it will be quite like yours but lets see.

Good luck with a new engine

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 7th, 2010, 4:49 pm
by _JP_
was a shit skid not enough smoke, until the car lit on fire then there was plenty hahah loved the oil leaks that thing had and the super dangerous slippery condition's it created on the skid pan while mark was getting in shit for hacking it at gympie :D

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 7th, 2010, 5:30 pm
by waghoonEF
"how fucked is your 4L"


FUCKED :banghead:

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 8th, 2010, 11:50 am
by Another_ef
That motor is fine bush still got another 10,000 kays left in it bush, jp it may not have made much smoke but it WAS a good skid

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 8th, 2010, 12:03 pm
by bigdell
last oil change it had less then 1L of oil. :good:

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 9th, 2010, 4:46 pm
by _JP_
Another_ef wrote:That motor is fine bush still got another 10,000 kays left in it bush, jp it may not have made much smoke but it WAS a good skid

skids are judged on instant smoke constant smoke and lastly car control if u got all three of them then its a good skid. but one consolation it did have fire and thats always a huge crowd pleaser :P
But yeah wasnt a bad skid but definately wasnt some of Bushy's best work

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 9th, 2010, 7:52 pm
by bushman
_JP_ wrote:skids are judged on instant smoke constant smoke and lastly car control if u got all three of them then its a good skid. but one consolation it did have fire and thats always a huge crowd pleaser :P


I got the car control bit down pat, but i don't have the HP or the tires for instant smoke and constant smoke"

_JP_ wrote: But yeah wasnt a bad skid but definately wasnt some of Bushy's best work


So its not bad, then what was it lol :?

What has been some of the better ones?

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 9th, 2010, 8:06 pm
by krisisdog
My AU ones fair fucked, couple of bearings flaking away lol. skids were to blame on this occasion as well lol.
No vid/pics of skid?

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 10th, 2010, 5:19 pm
by Another_ef
bushman wrote:
_JP_ wrote:skids are judged on instant smoke constant smoke and lastly car control if u got all three of them then its a good skid. but one consolation it did have fire and thats always a huge crowd pleaser :P


I got the car control bit down pat, but i don't have the HP or the tires for instant smoke and constant smoke"

_JP_ wrote: But yeah wasnt a bad skid but definately wasnt some of Bushy's best work


So its not bad, then what was it lol :?

What has been some of the better ones?


bush that one we did in my car had to be right up there with the best work haha

JP you can pay for fedearls on a set of rims and bush will skid them and then it'll be good right???????

federals seem to smoke awsome

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 12:50 am
by bushman
HP is needed man for good tire smoke need to turn them at 220kmh for really good smoke, and trust me while that one i did in your car was great for car control and on spot doeys etc. I have done alot better.

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 10:14 am
by _JP_
i reckon a good ckid was the one u did at the end of mundoolun road that night shit loads of smoke and thw fuckin wickedest whips and doughies i have ever seen, and so much smoke when u took of down the road on the limiter the car the came alojng have to stop and wait for the smoke to clear before they drove through the intersection, now that was a fuckin top skid

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 10:53 am
by mad_keen
I should have got pics of mine with the piston gravel in the sump.

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 12:16 pm
by Another_ef
it was too bad about the road surface being gay otherwise it would've been mad i reckon :)

anyway back OT

show us some more FOOKED 4L's

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 8:15 pm
by misk
well i didnt think my bottom end was fucked lol
but apparently it has other thoughts!

only slightly melted pistons, but the pistons are pretty loose in the bore also.
i put it back together today and it still has mad compression and goes hard, so we'll see how long it lasts with the turbo on it :)

theres about 4 pistons like this

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Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 8:21 pm
by 89.SVO
with my old engine each time i serviced it there were metal flakes in the oil

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 11th, 2010, 9:20 pm
by Allen
This is what my pistons looked like when I did it's headgasket a few months ago.

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Currently its running on 5 cylinders, chewing through oil & generally being a piece of shit... :P

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:09 pm
by Grechie
Mine felt pretty damn quick before this damage occured lol

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Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:21 pm
by needfordspeed
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Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:34 pm
by 89.SVO
please explain ^^^^^

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:39 pm
by Sunboost
Gill that's fucked. You sure that would happen in a couple of seconds?

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:41 pm
by Gozza
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more to come haha

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 7:44 pm
by 89.SVO
omg explain ^^^^

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 8:05 pm
by Rollin
WILDEB - Turbo AU engine + Shell fuel = Fail.

This is another of Gozzas engines, this one hydraulic'd due to an amazing combination of failed PCV valve in an AU motor fitted with a turbo and a log (ED style) manifold. Big revs then a lift off in gear meant it sucked a whole lot of oil into the manifold, then on the gas again and the turbo pushed all the oil into the rear cylinder. It wasn't pretty. The gudgeon pin was wedged against the crank so hard that we couldn't turn the motor on the starter or with a breaker bar OR with a starter and a breaker bar together, so we had to cut the side of the block out to turn the crank so we could undo the converter bolts....

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Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 8:14 pm
by mad_keen
Lol thats nice!

Biggest piece of my piston was about grape size. But nothing broke out of the engine!!

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 8:31 pm
by needfordspeed
Sundeep wrote:Gill that's fucked. You sure that would happen in a couple of seconds?


From what you could see while it was in the block....id think it could. But once I pulled it out there's no way it happened in only a few seconds! RT reckons it's been running lean for ages, was a stupid thing to drive it so much untuned, don't know what I was thinking! Even if you kunts egg me on i'm never doing this again :P

Re: How fucked is your 4L

PostPosted: July 12th, 2010, 8:43 pm
by LUXO_8
LOL...gozz wins!!