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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: topher on 24 April 2013, 21:59

Title: 1.8T owners...
Post by: topher on 24 April 2013, 21:59

i've seen bent rods come out of 1.8T engines a few times over the years, but this is the most impressive/expensive i've witnessed so i thought i'd share the pictures.

(http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dv8r/golf/rod1.jpg)

(http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dv8r/golf/rod2.jpg)

(http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dv8r/golf/rod3.jpg)

(http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dv8r/golf/rod4.jpg)


the car was a standard Leon Cupra R that rolled in to the workshop with the complaint "loud ticking from front end"

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: barrym381 on 24 April 2013, 22:03

surprised it drove at all  :grin: :grin: :grin:

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: jonrandom on 24 April 2013, 22:07

Wow, well and truly fu*ked! Surely not standard? How were the cylinder walls?

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: jonrandom on 24 April 2013, 22:08

Sorry see you say standard, so what would cause it then?

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: Wayne on 24 April 2013, 22:11

Fook me, was it really standard seems very strange.

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: topher on 24 April 2013, 22:21

i'm told it isn't modified, i haven't tried reading the ecu to see if it's mapped and obviously can't put it on the dyno at the moment :grin:

there were no signs of detonation or debris on the piston crown, some bearing damage but the crank survived. the cylinder wall would go again since it knocked the oil spray jet clean off before it could interfere with the rings.. the problem with that is the thread didn't pull out of the spray jet, it pulled a big chunk of the inside of the block with it :laugh: the crank sensor pickup ring isn't looking too clever either thanks to the groove it shaved off the bottom of the piston skirt that you can see in the pictures

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: golfyste on 24 April 2013, 22:47

Oops!
Another example of why uprated rods are a must!

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: ReDBull on 24 April 2013, 22:51

Rods made out of old coke cans. It's impressive it was still drive able!
How much do you charge to fit forged rods?

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: GTi_James on 24 April 2013, 23:32

 :shocked:

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 24 April 2013, 23:32

 :shocked:

Did not think a car with a rod that bent would still run

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: navmk4gti on 25 April 2013, 00:10

Holy moly.. would liked see that in flesh on saturday  :grin:

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: Chris. on 25 April 2013, 02:17

Out of cylinder 3 by any chance?
Tbh,  running lambda .93 isn't going to help at all!  Just asking for trouble and people have seen a good few bent rods on stock lumps

Title: Re: 1.8T owners...
Post by: topher on 25 April 2013, 13:10

#4, hence the trigger wheel engraving on the skirt