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In a message dated 5/22/06 5:04:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jaransonT3@comcast.net writes: << Bob Heydt had some car trouble coming down in his roadster and didn't make it. Bob, what happened to your engine? Heard it was a spectacular failure. >> I take it my buddy John found you (we left together), after I described what Sophy looked like to him over the phone. Yeah, it went up in a very very big cloud of smoke about 30 miles from the house. Filled the car full of it, and continued to smoke for over 20 minutes after we stopped. :O It took us over 3 hours to get it back home. I haven't pulled it out and autopsied it yet, but it sounds like it either lost a rod bearing, or a main. It didn't sound too good when we tried to see if it would re-fire after we got it home (it didn't start, and made expensive noises while trying). It was 42 degrees out when we got ready to leave the house at 7AM, and I asked Rob (my co-pilot and son) which car we were going to take, as I had the Notch ready to go in case of rain, but it had stopped raining an hour prior. He started putting on his heavy coat, so I knew we were going topless. Couldn't talk him out of it either, so away we went in the Roadster. We were in good spirits, had the sun at our back, and nothing but blue sky in the direction we were headed. Kinda felt it start to lay down a little about a mile before it quit, but wasn't really thinking much about it, just seemed like it needed a little more pedal (the FI was playing tricks on me, due to such a light throttle required to use it). No other warning, then I glanced into the rear view mirror and saw the cloud starting, and getting big quick. Pulled over and that was it, we coasted about 1/2 mile and stopped (45 minutes after we left the house). From the looks of things, it pushed most of it's oil out the cooling fan hub, as the black belt box had an inch of oil sitting in the bottom of it when I took a look (along side the freeway). It'll require a day or 2 of cleaning, as the engine got a good oil soaking (including the heat exchangers, both sets). I haven't figured out what exactly I'm going to do yet, but I've got to get the Notch ready for the Invasion, and that's my priority now (only have 2 months to get it ready). Sorry I didn't make it, but if John had realised I was along side the road sooner, we might have been able to get back home sooner, and taken the Notch there. Unfortunately we got back here pretty late, so we decided we had enough excitement for one day. Bob 65 Notch S w/ Sunroof and IRS (Krusty) 71 Square, now a 2 seat Roadster, pics can be seen at; http://volksrods.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2977 and now has a dead T-3 with D-jet FI engine. : ( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~