What broke in Turbo Taxi’s engine?

This episode of Carnage sees us bringing back the car that started off all this YouTube insanity five decades in the past: Turbo Taxi!

Whilst a supporter-favourite from the beginning, this FG Falcon has been missing from your screens for pretty some time now. You see, she’s bought a damaged coronary heart, owning invested very some time limping in and out of the workshop with suspected ring hurt on the LPG Barra.

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Common viewers will know this surely isn’t the initial inventory-bottom-close Barra this car has killed, and when this a person enable go, we lastly determined to toss in the towel as considerably as using an SBE mill is anxious. Although it is fully achievable to operate 10s on a stocko Barra with E85, we’re even now stubbornly employing barbecue gas, and it’s bitten us on extra than a single celebration.

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With that in brain, a new Barra is now staying machined at Dandy Engines, which will be copping a established of aftermarket H-beam rods and cast JE pistons. That must help futureproof the engine against the trials of LPG, and hopefully see the car or truck dip into the 10s – ultimately!

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Although we’re waiting around for the new donk, this episode sees Scotty pulling the outdated damaged motor out of the car or truck in buy to tear it down to see what went wrong.

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After the engine was down to a quick-block, it did not choose Scotty long to obtain the culprit. Even though there weren’t any apparent troubles with the pistons nevertheless in area, as soon as he dropped out rod and piston #6, it painted a very terrible photo. All the rings – and in particular the ring lands – had been smashed to all hell.

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As intense as it seems, when you consider this was an not known-affliction SBE Barra that we pumped 620rwhp via on LPG, it’s rather impressive.

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Following up, we’ll be down at Dandy Engines to watch the machine get the job done on the new-and-improved Barra for the Taxi, so make guaranteed you tune in upcoming 7 days to see that as we get all set to lastly run 10s in this pile!