13-04-17, 01:41 AM
(12-04-17, 08:26 AM)unfazed link Wrote: Oh Foc, that was tough luck Tommy, any idea why it let go with such a bang, blocked cat or sludge??
When Yamaha stopped making the engines for Toyota they went backwards.
Don't know what the issue was and will never know as she has gone to Birmingham and is going to have a Turbo lump in it and used as a Donnington Park track day car.
It certainly would not have been dirty oil that caused it as I changed the oil every 3.5K miles and used a good quality semi synth oil.
the filter gets/got changed each oil change, the oil that came out the back was dark in colour but certainly not dirty (It had done about 1.5K miles)
The only indication I got, thinking about it with hindsight, was a couple of times that morning I felt that the car had gone over a ridge in the road, but it only effected the rear wheels, it felt like a bump in the tarmac but when looking in the mirror the road appeared to be smooth with no tarmac repairs or anything else. Now wheather this has any bearing on what happened about 1 mile after the last tim eit did that I don't know for sure, but I have wondered since if the con-rod/big end bearing bolts came loose and ended up in catastrophic failure.
Cheers Unfazed :thumbup