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I blew my engine.

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FrustratedUser

Lifer
Throttle got stuck and a heavy crash. Engine reved to 50k and the rod snapped! :Q
Thankfully I'm OK!









Forgot to mention the engine was in my 1/8 buggy.
🙂
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Throttle got stuck and a heavy crash. Engine reved to 50k and the rod snapped! :Q
Thankfully I'm OK!









Forgot to mention the engine was in my 1/8 buggy.
🙂
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No TRS on the servo?...bah neither do, only a failsafe. I have had a few WOT runaways.....but usually I get there in time before the engine separates from itself.
 
Heh.. I once snapped the crank in my old Mustang. It was great... the oil filter went one way, and some other parts went another...
 
Originally posted by: DaTT
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Throttle got stuck and a heavy crash. Engine reved to 50k and the rod snapped! :Q
Thankfully I'm OK!









Forgot to mention the engine was in my 1/8 buggy.
🙂
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No TRS on the servo?...bah neither do, only a failsafe. I have had a few WOT runaways.....but usually I get there in time before the engine separates from itself.
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Nope, no big deal anyway. I've run 3.5 gallons of fuel trough it.
The damage report is good. Turned out everything else was OK inside so I'll just put in a new rod and I'm good to go. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Nik
50K? Fifty THOUSAND RPM?

Shens.

F1 racers hit 20k RPM coming out of the PITs, dude.
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F1 engines are full sized engines, and his engine is an RC car engine. It takes a hell of a lot of engineering to make a car engine rev to 20k rpm, but miniature engines have been able to rev that high forever. It's easy.

40,000+ rpm for a R/C car engine is normal. I remember hearing about one of those micro machines engines that they build on a silicon wafer, and it revved to over 500,000 rpm. The smaller you go, the higher it can rev.

 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Nik
50K? Fifty THOUSAND RPM?

Shens.

F1 racers hit 20k RPM coming out of the PITs, dude.
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F1 engines are full sized engines, and his engine is an RC car engine. It takes a hell of a lot of engineering to make a car engine rev to 20k rpm, but miniature engines have been able to rev that high forever. It's easy.

40,000+ rpm for a R/C car engine is normal. I remember hearing about one of those micro machines engines that they build on a silicon wafer, and it revved to over 500,000 rpm. The smaller you go, the higher it can rev.
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smaller u go the higher it needs to rev to be useful lol
 
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