Eagles Engine is DESTROYED... At the Biggest Race of the Year!

As I'm uploading this video, we just had some more Catastrophic failure with Eagle and we are going to drop our new Eagle design t-shirt right now. You guys have always supported with the merch and supported by watching the channel. And if you go to cjracecars.com right now, get your new Eagle design. We'd love to sell a bunch of these things. This week's been pretty rough on us. We broke the drive shaft and had a lot of other damage. So if you buy anything off cjracecars.com this week, at the end of the week, we're going to pick one random order and we're going to throw the broken carbon fiber drive shafts to one random order. Again, I can't thank you guys enough for all the support. Even if you just watch these videos, you're the reason we're here. You're the reason we're able to keep going. And I don't know if we're done for good this week or not, but hopefully not. Hey, everyone, and welcome back to CJ Race Car's YouTube channel. And we're here at World Cup Finals for the biggest race of the year with Eagle. And unfortunately, before we even made our first pass, Troy found some damage in the engine that is not repairable, which I'm going to cut to in a minute, show you what they found yesterday. Our plan right now. It's to get a new engine. Troy called me yesterday and said, we're done for the week. I hate to tell you, but we can't race this week. And the options were not great, I'm going to be honest. It was spend a lot of money or spend a lot more money. But we don't want to go home. This is the last race for us for the year, probably, with Eagle. And the biggest race. And I know it's the race you guys want to see the most because it's a quarter mile. And we're here to do the best we can. So I'm going to cut to what they found yesterday. And then hopefully we'll get the engine soon and get this thing back together. All right, less than ideal conditions right now. Did the rack in the car the other night. There was a little bit of material in the oil, and I went through there, physically checked everything, got it done, and was thinking, got home, started to sleep, slept on it, and said, well, when we get to the track, I'm going to pull these main bearings out, just kind of go over everything, you know. When we pulled the thrust at FL2K, you know, obviously the thrust was messed up on the bearing, but the face of the bearing that rides on the crankshaft was perfectly fine. We didn't have any issues with it, so. So, uh... Get here, pull it apart, pull the first bearing, It wasn't terrible, replaced it, got it done, got to the thrust bearing, which is the center main, and the thrust started to get worn again like it did at FL2K. Now, this time, the face of the bearing was worn some. So I had to go in, I cleaned the crankshaft up, got it all back to, you know, like new standard, put it all back together, got back to number four main cap, and we have a huge issue on number four main cap. I don't even know, I've never seen something this bad, but the bearing here, as you can see, there is no material really gone so like you wouldn't be able to see any material in the oil from that because there's no material gone it is smashed and the edges rolled and the biggest problem with that is it destroyed number four main cap and what happens with this when this happens is this is just this hole has become bigger than what is intended to be for stock uh bore diameter There is nothing that we can do with this. This is junk. To fix this, you would have to take the engine to Proline Racing and what they would do is they put a brand new main cap. They will probably weld up the saddle in the block and would go back through with a line bore and then a line hone it when it's done, which would make it completely brand new again, fresh. We don't have that kind of Time right now. Sorry that things aren't going as planned and we got broken parts, but that's just part of racing. No big deal. We were going to need a, I assume that the crankshaft that we have now. is cracked and that's why that we're getting all this flexed and the bearings are getting torn up. So we were going to need a crankshaft anyway. We and Cameron spoke about that before the race, knowing that we would need a cam, I'm sorry, a crankshaft. And so we kind of already knew that. So the only difference here is we're going to get a block and we needed a crank anyway, and we're set to spend the extra money for the block and we'll decide this one, fixing it or selling it at a later date or keeping it for a spare. But for now we should have parts tomorrow night and we should be ready for Q1 on Thursday. So Bradley's under here getting things taken apart. We'll get this thing fixed. No way that we could miss this race for you guys at home. We put so much effort in trying to get ready for this. I know everybody wants to see Eagle go out there and try to break its personal best record that was set with Garrett driving the car before with the turbo setup. So we will not give up and we'll get this thing back fixed and tip top shape. So stay tuned. We've got the engine about ready to come out as you can see here. I'm going to show So, we've worked on this thing here, me and Bradley, the last couple hours. Bradley's in there getting the transmission bolts out right now. The converter bolts are already out. I put the oil pan back on this thing. All the front of this thing is stripped down and ready to come out. I've got a cherry picker ready to pull it. The only thing I don't have is the sling that goes over to the heads. And another fellow racer of ours, Bill Lutz, has that for us. And I will get that first thing in the morning. I'll get this thing snatched out. The long block that we have coming won't be here until the same time as the other parts we were going to get. So it'll give us all day tomorrow to basically get this one out and get all the intake and everything off, which is plenty of time. We're almost ready to come out with it now, but just thankful that we have the right stuff coming for the car that we'll need. And we'll be back in action for hopefully for Q1. Stay tuned, and we're working hard trying to get this thing done. Cameron's on the way here. Big Tom's on the way here with the merch. And, you know, it's just me and Bradley. We're waiting on a little bit of help to get here, and we left a little bit early, so those guys are all behind us, and we're just doing what we can do. Doing the best we can do to try to make Q1 here, so, with Eagle. We know that you guys followed us the whole way, and we don't want to let you down by any means. You know, this is a very expensive thing that is happening to get this thing back together, so. All right, we got Big Tom on the job now. Big Tom's here. We're getting this, we got the manifold off the engine, because the other engine we have coming, we want to put our manifold on there. A lot of the tune-up stuff has to do in directly correlation to the... To the injectors and the manifold setup so we want to run our injectors with the manifold and everything and just getting this taped up so no trash goes in it. Just got to go get the sling for the top to pull this. I got the cherry picker here and all the stuff is laid out here in the trailer. We've got everything here ready to go when the other engine gets here. Manifold pulled off. I'm going to go off. Everything's just sitting here ready to be put back into the car. But while we're in here doing the engine, it's also on our list too, we're going to go ahead and pull the converter apart. I'm going to change the lock-up clutches if they're needed to be, but we're going to get that out of there, make sure the lock-up clutches look good. That way the converter is fresh and ready to go. Get that on the bench and get that split apart. All right guys, when it rains it pours. This is what was in the torque converter here. It looks like we were working on the old lathe today. So what happened was, This thing's got a retaining ring here for the lock-up clutches. The lock-up clutches are down in here with this oil right here. You really can't see it, but what happened was is the bolts started working out. Don't know how. They got Loctite on them and ran into the back of the turbine here, which most of this metal that's in here won't get into the transmission because it's so big it'll just stay inside the torque converter. But we will change the fluid, drop the pan on the tranny, clean it out. We've got to get this stuff out. We've got to send Tom down to the hardware store. Tom, you ready to go to the hardware store today, huh? Of course. Tom's going to go to the hardware store. You've got to get these little bolts right here. We've got to get these other ones out that are broken. And what that is is that's a little bolt right there. And you take and you turn the head down with a grinder so it fits down in there. But that looks like about 10, 24 threads right there by about 5/8-inch, 3-quarter long. So we'll get some new bolts and get them in there. Before we get back to working on these race cars, this video is sponsored by Raycon. Black Friday is right around the corner, and Raycon is offering up to 50% off site-wide. If you've been looking for a new pair of earbuds, check out their Everyday Clip Earbuds. What I really like about these is the open-ear design. I can listen to music or take a phone call while I'm working around the shop, and I can still hear what's going on around me. They've got this lightweight memory metal clip that holds them securely in a place without putting pressure on your ears. 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If that thing all cut out, it's all nasty, so we have to get it fuzzed up when we get done. It'll be fine, good as new. I got new lock-up clutches and stuff like that. This stuff usually never happens, but everything is happening at once right now. So me and Bradley are working, trying to get this stuff done. We'll continue working on this converter, getting it all cleaned and assembled and still waiting on the engine to get here. We got plenty to keep us busy between now and then, so stay tuned. So we got the converter all cleaned up. You go in and sand this up and clean this with a file real nice. Put some brand new lock-up clutches in here. But, uh... Got this thing all freshened up. Put the retaining ring back in. This is the ring before that had the issue. It was locked up in here before. We had to get this thing out of here with a cut-off wheel, but see, we've got it right now. We will screw this back in. It's 7 o'clock. Loctite the bolts back in. Get this thing put back together. Clean up the turbine and make sure all the bearings are good, and we'll be ready to ride. All right, Tom went to go get us some new bolts. He had to get some new bolts for the retaining ring, and that's what actually caused all the problem with the torque converter. So we've got the turbine all cleaned up, got the stator cleaned. We've got new bearings here, the O-rings back in it. We're just going to put the pump back on it. But as you can see, it's fresh again, 110%. So we'll put this back on. This has got a little spot to line it up on here. Make sure it's indexed correctly and get this on. Get it pulled down and ready to go in the car. I'll let him finish the rest. I got it cinched down. You can see there's a little index mark here, a zero and a zero. Get this thing cinched down. And one thing to always check once you get this together, especially since we put new bearings, this doesn't have any shims in it. Most of these have a lot of clearance, but you want to take a screwdriver, stick in here and make sure that the stator is free inside the torque converter. The stator is locked down, when you clamp this thing together, it is not going to work properly. So always when you take your bolt together apart, you put it back together, you always spin the stator, make sure it's free. He's got a lot of clearance in them, so it's usually not an issue, but on other models of converters. So if you put too many shims in there, With the new bearings, if they're a little bit taller, that will cause the stator in there to lock up. So measure what you got coming out with your old bearings. Make sure your new ones aren't taller. Because, I mean, if they're ten thousandths too tall or even five thousandths too tall and it sandwiches it and you're on the verge of that stuff being too tight, it will lock the stator up and it will cause issues. So always check. All right, our new engine showed up about five minutes ago, and the guys are already getting it stuck in the hole. Grandpa Tom's working real hard on the jack. Brian flies in all the way from California. He's not here 10 minutes and we already got him to work because we only got about 10 hours until we got to be up there for tech and then we got to go to Q1. All right we got Bradley down here just torquing up making sure the rod bolts are torqued and they were double checking everything and Getting everything right down there. Up here we got some silicone about to put our intake on. What do you think Brian? Let's do it. We're getting there. Let's do it. The reason we're running the intake off the old motor is because the intake and the injectors and the tune-up all need to to work together. So we're going to use our intake on this engine and hopefully the tune-up stays the same because we're going right into Q1 and we don't have time to work on a tune-up. That's it, that's it, pretty much the well right there. It's going back the other way. Alright, we're on our way. It's starting back the other way. So we're good. So that's top dead center. It's TDC. We've got to make sure we've got top dead center right. Yep. With the... For everybody at home. Hey, is it... Something that you have to verify right here. TDC. A lot of people get their engines and they just throw them in. The timing pointer's on them and they don't back check. So what we did here is we put a screwdriver down the hole. I know this is not the most technical thing in the world, but it's a little crude, but... Gets the job done so if you go out there with about six degrees too much timing it's gonna be way worse than putting that screwdriver there with that little dial indicator. So what we're doing is the piston's coming up we me and Cameron were watching it and we came up all the way TDC we've seen that actually the dial indicator dwell which where the piston dwells at the top and using the old handy dandy strut cup here your dial indicator to that long snap-on screwdriver right there come on down here when we verified now when we got the engine if you see there the timing pointer is on zero that's on zero see that zero there yep we're on zero so When we got the engine it had a timing pointer on it. The timing point that was on it was at 15 where it was. I put it at 15 it's just where the engine was when we got it. I took our timing pointer I put it on I put it at 15 and then I just back checked it. So we are at zero true top dead center. So if we put 30 degrees of base engine timing we know we have 30 degrees. You know so if that was off six degrees and you thought you had 30 you might have 36 degrees. That's not good. That's how you go out there and that's how you tear apart so. Yeah, we don't need to tear up any more parts. It's a pretty standard issue on any race application that I do. The engine comes from the engine shop. The thing is, is with this, the blower drive is where the pointer is. It's not on the actual engine, something like you would get from the engine shop and the engine builder would put it on for you. It's on the blower drive, so you have to fact check that. That's something that we do when we come to the track and we put something like this in there like a new engine. Just make sure that's good, and that we are. All right, here we go. How you feel Brad? Oh, we're good. Feel good? We're good. Ready for bed? Ready to go. No. No? It's only 1 a.m. It's only 1 o'clock. It's only 1 a.m. Yeah, it's only 1 a.m. We're ready for Q1. Hopefully. We didn't fire it up yet. We gotta go through tech. 8 a.m. We already got that locked in. That's true. Holy smokes. Woo! What do you think? It's down. All right, we gotta fire it up again and adjust the timing a little bit. We're close. We're off about seven degrees right now. What about the idle? Well, let's get the timing right, then we'll mess with idle, you know? Yeah. I'm glad we got the sides off the tent, because that was pretty rough. Real quick. Yeah, it was bad. It was quick. Yeah. I'm sorry. Well, I think everything's good. Timing's good? Yep. Good. Everything's good. All right. We can't read real good, but we're good. It's all right. It's all right. It did a lot of other things right. Let's go make a test hit. Test it. I think we're ready for the morning now. I'm ready. I'm ready for some bed. Well, me too. Me too. All right. Well, let's get out of here. Thank you guys for the help. Really appreciate it. It's been a long day, long night. Thank you for buying us a new motor. You're welcome. All right. Well, that's going to do it for today's video. It's 1.30 in the morning, but Eagle is alive and running again. We got our first engine here. Brand new engine in the car, and we are ready to go racing. Can't thank you guys enough for the support. Make sure you go to cjracecars.com. Get your new Eagle shirt. We were going to wait to release them, but since we had the engine problems, we decided to release them soon. And we do have them here at World Cup Finals, so if you're here, grab them while you're here. If not, go to the website and get it. Thanks again for watching. Make sure you like, share, and subscribe, and we'll see you on our next one.