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From: "David Carroll" <NISSSAN@email.msn.com> Subject: 510 Day BBQ Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:21:06 -0700List, Well, the BBQ at my place came off pretty well. There were about 30 people and probably 10 or 12 510s? The wagon motor blow was actually pretty cool. I fired it up and let it warm up for a couple minutes so it would run at full throttle. I then shut it off and locked the throttle wide open. I restarted it and ran like hell! It was probably turning over 7500rpm and made one hell of a roar! I guess it went about 30 seconds or so and blew a volcano of water and steam out of the radiator cap which I left off so I wouldn't split my new Griffin radiator. It went another 30 seconds or so and with a low thud it threw number three connecting rod and popped a piece out of the block in a ball of fire. After that the motor sounded kinda soft and dropped to probably 6000rpm immediately. Then it slowly lost power and ground to a stop about 15 seconds later. I let it sit for about 5 minutes to cool down and it started right up again but would only rev to about 1500rpm so I just shut it off. Ya gotta love L16s, they don't know when to die! As I had hoped, there was no damage to the car, just a puddle of oil from the aerated oil pan and block. Kinda fun, I guess. Next year I'll try to get a Honduh with a "Type R" sticker on it to blow up and then crush with my Unimog! Thanks to everyone that stopped by and I hope to see you here next year. David Carroll Experimental Engineering Seattle Washington USA This message comes to you from the Datsun 510 mailing list. List rules and instructions are available at: http://bluebirds.datsun510.com/bluebirds/listcharter Authors retain implicit copyright to their material. Obtain permission from the author before redistributing messages.