Thread: The Panda- Pretty Much a Racekar

It was 3rd gear

Originally Posted by crazyguy03

Amazing how these cars "blow up"
race the **** out of it the night before , drives home fine
wife takes it to work the next day, blows up doing 35mph in a school zone - blame wife , get new motor
lol wonder if that guy ^ still posts here


anyways good luck with the build , all 13 pages so far seem spot on , glad to see the car go to someone who cares about it

That's what I don't understand. It was babied for the last month before it popped. Just drove it to school and back home on fridays, and cruising around with the girlfriend on the weekend. It did have about 1/4 tank of gas in it, and I filled up in BFE. But, even if it did happen from bad gas, doesn't make sense why it happened at 2100rpm

Don't worry my first engine blew when I was coasting to a stop sign

Bcuz rebuild time!
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Engine bay shot with nearly everything out.
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Welding holes shut
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Ground down the welds, then a skim coat of Evercoat's GlassLite.
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Rough feather edge.** It's getting late...
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Its looking good. Keep that rot at bay hell I wonder how the rockers are holding up. Since its down for now

Moar.

Dont think he want to blow up another motor..... that's an expensive hobby

Originally Posted by ericspecullaas

Its looking good. Keep that rot at bay hell I wonder how the rockers are holding up. Since its down for now

Thanks! And that's the next project, the core support rust, then on to the rockers.

Your welcome

nice piston what did the bore look like

Different view of piston

piston couldnt take the heat so it got out of the kitchen lol, dam

You say you didn't hear/feel this until a stoplight or a stop of some sort? Tough to see that and think it didn't give any symptoms

Yassss looks good. Cant wait to see the outcome and hear more about it!

This should be good

Originally Posted by WhiteLightningGTP

I had it on cruise going down US10 at about 80mph. Then smoke and oil everywhere.

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

You say you didn't hear/feel this until a stoplight or a stop of some sort? Tough to see that and think it didn't give any symptoms

^^^

I lost my first one rolling along at 70~.

Lights dimmed.

CEL flashed.

The end.

#4 looked like Bill's picture. We shook most of the piston out of the catback.

Plz paint the engine bay something cool. Like a metallic root beer .