zweett has started her.. 0hp->500hp+ work last night dunno if anyone botherd to read poor scotties WHY ME! misfortune continues thread.. but long story short.. he hydro locked his motor when he realised zeds do not swim.. (drove into deep puddle, deep enough to flood interior over door sills, pod relocated to 2" above bottom of front mount, engine chokes and stalls.. car pushed to side of the road where he proceeded to try to restart, who wouldnt.. and crank it over till she seized.. lesson for everyone! do not crank over engine that has injested water) now i dunno if the starter has enough torque to squash a piston and seize it to the bores in a normal hydro lock situation.. maybe just the gallons of water hitting hot zweett pistons has warped em and seized em in.. we shall soon find out pics from last nights fun.. yet another WA eninge on me crane (none yet to be returned home) scottie wanted me to photochop the crane out of the picture and make all the ladies think his buff (but i wouldnt coz he showed me he can bench press more than me) obligatory engine bay shot (scotty styles, scuse my durry smoke.. quitting going well obviously) scotty removing belts the only way he knows (ghetto bush mechanic styles) fan belts timing belt those were special tools that he ordered from nissan beyond the black stump branch, bush mechanic division(timing belt remover and fan belt puller) now the fun bit are you sure its hydro locked? well the exhaust was full of water.. coulda gone in the other way though i pulled the intake pipes off and threw water on adams head who was under the car undoing shite then torch down the turbo intake hard pipes (ones bolted to compressor inlet) OUCH! turbos themself will be fine as they;re a sealed unit.. and coming as a bargain to you all soon.. they came out of a 360hp zed!!! this is a pic of water raining out of the upper plenum as we are undoing the egr pipes and the peice de-resis-tance lower plenum, full of water on cylinder 1 and 6 (those valves must be closed) which one of those 2 is the seized one?? shall we take bets.. it will be which ever one is on its compression stroke i bets couldnt get the heads off last night as we snapped an allen key trying to get the last 2 bolts out (the ones that arent inside the cam covers so seize in there good.. left em soaking in WD) scotty should also have pics of where he smahshed himself in the face with a breaker bar.. looks like his bin in a big fight!!.. haha
Might be lucky... ...I too think the starter motor isn't going to do huge damage. *fingers crossed* Might just be full of water and no real damage don't think a starter motor would bend rods or damage the crank.
Scotty provers the Skyline boys wrong again! See Skyliners the Zed is obviously not a boat as it doesnt run in water! LOL, Scotty thats a butt load of water , what crap luck ! Atleast you did a good job of it! MattB
You said "last night"... ...how long did it take you guys to pull the engine? I am amazed at how fast some guys can do it! Good luck with the rebuild Scott Cheers Geoff
rofl at engine bay driving and bush mechanic u guys seemed to make a nice job of it, good work. cummon scotty, the dyno day is on the 16th of sept LOL good luck
yeah awsome!!! Now the fun starts, stripping it down, buying parts it will be like x-mas..... Didn?t take us that long to get the motor out, only a few hours, I was meant to do more prep work but never got around to it, only had taken the radiator/wiring harness out b for we started. I got the fun job of working under the car, but because I have put my gbox on and off so many times 4 or 5?? I was the best man for the job. takes like 30mins ? or less to pull the box. While the rest of the boy's hit the front AC/PS/ALT etc... Cant wait to get it stripped. Sunday is the stripping day, the day I cry at how much damage... or not.
hehe engine bay shot...classic. good luck scotty, show andrew and tom how its done and finish the rebuild before them
good stuff.... well, not for scotty I guess..... but you guys dont muck around..... I need some of you boys down here in Vic...
Good Luck Scotty! I suspect that Zweett will be back ZWEETTER than EVER I am sure that you will go nut's with parts even if they are not damaged so you can get BIG HP from your rebuild.......its only money after all LOL LOL Cheers Tim
Wish I could be there to get my hands dirty... Got to ask Scott, what the fucks with your clutch fan? Looks like something has taken a few bites out of it Good luck with it all bro.
Wish I had a big shed, lots of time and money etc... then I would pull my engine out and get the supercharger sussed Get your car finished first andrew! It has been too long since it has been on the road Cheers Rob
Looking good guys! Scotty saw your other post, pretty much the same as I am doing with my engine, looks like there will be a few 500hp zeds on here by the end of the year? Saw you are looking at using UAS exhaust manifolds, I know lysergic is pretty wants a set as do I, we should look at trying to get a GB together if you're keen?
