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[Debs.]

  Kaboom on the dyno!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=228_1288109933

[Welung666]

OUCH! Messy

[aaronjb]

At least that looks like it was probably a manufacturer or some other company dyno testing an engine - they can probably eat the cost..

Imagine if you were watching your own car and it eats it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-04a-7Glng

[Omega_Dan]

Ouch! i won a rolling road session when i ran a Citroen C2 VTR. Gave it to a mate of mine instead as he always drove his car hard and i have seen the consequences too many times on youtube ect (although there heavily modified)

[PhilRich]

And i'll bet this guy has trouble counting his change after this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-JIkjqQuaM

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Wow!!  That is spectacular to watch when you are not paying for a new engine afterwards!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

Sebastian Vettel’s engine must have done that on Sunday!

[Kevin Wood]

... and keep your arms and legs inside until the ride has stopped. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpOTR6a0U0&NR=1

Kevin

[aaronjb]

... and keep your arms and legs inside until the ride has stopped. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpOTR6a0U0&NR=1

Kevin

The minute people started walking around you could see that coming but..  that had to hurt!

[Kevin Wood]

I was watching a mobile rolling road at a kit car show once. He'd set it up in an area of gravel, and parked his (hired) van behind it.

Picture the scene. Car comes along with sticky tyres, straight on the dyno and starts to spool up.  click,click,click,click,click,click, ... Tish!

There goes his windscreen.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

  That was just his free shot-blasting service demo

I think this is why I've always preferred the idea of the hub-dynos .. if you take the wheels off and bolt the car to the dyno with the hubs, it's impossible for the thing to slip off/go flying/shoot stuff/run someone over/etc.. well, it makes me feel safer, anyway (and standing in front of a regular roller dyno is just plain scary!)

[Kevin Wood]

That was just his free shot-blasting service demo

I think this is why I've always preferred the idea of the hub-dynos .. if you take the wheels off and bolt the car to the dyno with the hubs, it's impossible for the thing to slip off/go flying/shoot stuff/run someone over/etc.. well, it makes me feel safer, anyway (and standing in front of a regular roller dyno is just plain scary!)

Not just in front either. I found myself standing beside a Rover K series powered Caterham on a rolling road once. Owner had already raised the rev limit because the power was still climbing at 9K RPM on the previous run  (engine had forged everything, obviously) and there I was standing at a tangent to pretty much every moving part. :-?

Decided to creep round the back and chance the stone chips instead. 

I think it made 253 BHP in the end.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

That's some result from a K-series, though! 

One of these days I have to get the MR2 on a set of rollers (or a hub dyno ) .. at least that way I'll know if the mapping is half way right

Although if it doesn't blow up at Anglesey this weekend (and it's survived a couple of years of road driving) .. it can't be that bad 

[Kevin Wood]

That's some result from a K-series, though! 

It had had some money thrown at it, that's for sure. Unfortunately it lunched itself about a month later. Aux. belt decided that 9k RPM was a tad too much at a track day, expanded until it jumped off the pulleys into the cam belt.

The moral of the story is always leave the cam belt covers on no matter how sexy your anodised vernier pulleys might look.

One of these days I have to get the MR2 on a set of rollers (or a hub dyno ) .. at least that way I'll know if the mapping is half way right

Although if it doesn't blow up at Anglesey this weekend (and it's survived a couple of years of road driving) .. it can't be that bad 

Fingers crossed.

Maybe a rolling road shootout is in order. I think ABS did one near here (Aldershot IIRC?) fairly recently.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

The moral of the story is always leave the cam belt covers on no matter how sexy your anodised vernier pulleys might look.

Oops! But yeah.. I always pondered leaving the covers off on the Nissan, although in this case it was largely because I was trying to work out where all the blasted oil was coming out from

You could, at one point, get clear moulded replacement covers for - I forget, either the Skyline or Supra.. never could find anyone making them for any other car, though

Maybe a rolling road shootout is in order. I think ABS did one near here (Aldershot IIRC?) fairly recently.

There is somewhere down that way - actually there's a few around here.. sounds like a good idea, to me!

[Kevin Wood]

You could, at one point, get clear moulded replacement covers for - I forget, either the Skyline or Supra.. never could find anyone making them for any other car, though

.. which no doubt look exquisite when plastered internally with old oil and rubber dust.

Kevin