When things go right its worth every penny but when things go wrong it really sucks!
Garry opted to service again this year leaving his own rally car in the shed to get down and dirty in the service parks. Well we would have liked the opportunity to get dirty but with an early retirement for the RX7 it wasnt to be.
A service after stage one, and a phone call after stage 2, we are out, they said, there was loud bang and immediately switched her off.
We packed everything up and trundled off up the road to the end of 2 and here was the RX7 and Ashtons BDA both parked up on the side of the road.
It turns out to be the oil filter. They worked here on site for about an hour, changing filters, by passing it, etc etc but it kept exploding.
Back at the workshop they pulled it apart, turns out the internals of the oil filter parted company and ended up stuck inside one of the oil galleries inside the engine. Resulting in about 200psi oil pressure!!!
The engine was scheduled for a rebuild, it will be fully stripped and back in the car for the Tunnicliffe sprint Sep 26.
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