Alright..........for anyone that doesn't know, my motor grenaded on me after 3 hours.

Looks like what happened is the steel sleeve was put in wrong and when the cylinder heated up, the aluminum cylinder expanded faster than the steel sleeve, then the sleeve slipped in the cylinder and hit the rod coming around, tearing all hell out of my motor.... [:@]

Anyways, here's a few pics of the day... (before, during and after the carnage) and about a 10 second clip of the only video I have of the darned thing.... enjoy.

http://media.putfile.com/The-RARE-440-footage

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

 

Hmm.........just like my bike.........sometimes the pictures work, sometimes they don't.

Just my luck.....


Nevermind, got it

 

Awesome vid and nice pics! Hope you get her going again soon! Looks like fun!

 

Sweet vid and cool pics man!! I bet when yosh is done, that's gonna be a bad boy....

 

Yeah it definetly will be. If I had to do it over again I would've started with the Yoshi 450 stroker. They make a firm claim of 55HP at the wheels. With less than 400lbs to push, it should make me smile despite all the trouble I've had....

 

55 hp at the rear wheels.... wow!! My buddies that we talked about before is like 32 hp.... That should bring a smile too ya.. How long before you can get the motor? Are you going to repolish it??

 

I've already bought a stock bore cylinder from a buddy for $75. (needed to replace my trashed one)

I WILL polish it up SOME before I send it off to yoshimura.

I will most likely send off the motor around the beginning of June. I'm still gathering up some cash. I spent all of my budget on the first motor, so I can't just send it off without having at least 75% of the final cost. I'm also hoping that my bottom end isn't a complete lost. The guys at Yosh will do a complete rebuild and replace anything that does not measure up to their specs. Hopefully mine isn't as bad as I think it is.

Also, I'm hoping for a quick return as we are now in the middle of the season and most people would have their motor built in the winter. Soo......maybe the middle / end of July if I'm lucky... []

 

I guess things could have been worse. Here's another friends piston and head.

This was a COMPLETE loss.....

 

dang!!! toasted that bad boy....wow...I haven't seen one that bad in a long time!! Piston come lose and slap the valves?

 

Nope.

The timing chain broke at WOT. Not only that, but the timing chain was a D.I.D. 4/5 at that!