...yes my car blew up a third motor over the weekend.
Friday night, I was on my way to Gruppe-S to get some new fuel injectors installed/tuned. I stopped in Sacramento to drop off some tires at Aaron's (sybir) house. Getting back on the freeway, just shifted to 4th gear 4000rpm, about 7-10psi, 165F oil temp, 100psi oil pressure, about 1200F EGTs, the car hesitated (which it's done before and was the reason I was on my way to Gruppe-S) then made a horrendous noise. Sounded kinda like a table saw being braked to a stop, I think it was the clutch slipping under full pressure because the motor had stopped turning.
I pushed the clutch in, and rolled to a stop. Called Aaron, who grabbed Matt (sonicsuby) and came out and picked my ass up. We used Aaron's AAA to get a tow truck (the drive of which was actually pretty cool, and took his time to make sure we got the car on the flatbed w/o damaging the intercooler or bumper) and towed the car to Paul's shop in Roseville.
Mike Warfield from Gruppe-S came out Sunday morning w/ his truck and trailer and picked up the car (Mike's the man 'cause he was took the time to come out and get the car even though he was supposed to be working on their rally car for next weekend's Rim Rally.. thanks a ton Mike!).
So the car's back at Gruppe-S. They're pulling the front of the motor apart. So far all they know is that the bolt holding the passenger intake cam gear is sheared, and that the timing belt jump timing. Which explaines the odd buldge in this picture.
They're gonna pull more apart and peak inside the heads w/ a borascope to see if everything's wrecked in there or not.