In a Spin, Both Feet In

[sean_v8_914]

...or you (your car) will pay the penalty. this happened at the end of the slalom when I spun and rolled backwards. the engine abruptly changed direction. although teh flywheel only moved 1-2mm. the heat generated instantaiously must have been intense to transfer material like this

where do I attach an image to this post?

[MikeD]

While editing the text of the post click on the "Img" button then paste in the URL to where the image is being hosted.

[sean_v8_914]

"URL hosted"? I can not just post a picture? I do not have a host for my picture

[rtyson]

you can host it for free at tinypic.com

click on the browse button to select the picture you want it to host, press the "host picture" button and it will host you pic. Copy the [img] tag line and paste it here.

[img]removed%20ridiculously%20large%20image[/img]

[sean_v8_914]

[img]http://tinypic.com/tags/?tag=crank+flange
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[MikeD]

I think you might have been looking for something like this...

[sean_v8_914]

thats it, thanks

the transmision is dying a slow death also

[sean_v8_914]

here's the text associated with the images
I looped it at the end of the slalom. I was already on the go pedal hard when she lost traction. I did not expect it, didn’t even feel it start to come loose till...whoops (wrong line? marbles? dirty?) well, I did not push the clutch in fast enough and rotated the engine and trans backwards. The abrupt change in direction of all that mass rotating at 4000rpm was a rather violent affair. I did not photo document everything because this morning my camera battery was dead and I just wanted to get it done.

The flywheel and crankshaft were tight. They were in fact welded together from the intense heat generated. The locate pin was sheered off. The boltholes in the flywheel are ovaled out. The bolts were bent and left thread marks inside the boltholes.

The cooling fan sheered off all 3 bolts and the drift pin. The fan and flywheel are now toast

that transmision has also been damaged. lucky I finished rebuilding that trans last week. engine damage has all been repaired. it will be back on teh road tomorrow.