New member/ track day

[mathiasen]

Hi All.

I been a member for some time now, but never said an official HALLO to you, I will do so by posting a pic from a track day, a very weet day I might add, but I´m not to blame for the "bad parking" they had made the long strait shorter wideout telling that at the drivers briefing OR as I use to explain my bad driving - the ABS had a malfunction !!!
Take no notice of bad spelling, as english is not my first languish.

Best Regards
Ole from Denmark

 

[Rich Z]

Ouch! Looks like you should have taken a 4 wheel drive vehicle to the track instead! I guess you could have blamed it on the wet track as well. :hehehe:

But hello from the USA, anyway! :wavey:

 

[Cor66Vette]

Hello and :welcome:. English your 2nd language? Not to worry, since not too many of us even have a 2nd language. :nonod: We talk "CORVETTE" !

 

[mathiasen]

"Corvette language"
In that case I have had some very deep conversations (pic)
Actualy Germen must be my 2. language, my wife is born in Essen, anyway thanks for the welcom greetings.
I been reading all of Rich Z posts about his engine, I was surprised that something like that happede in the country where the Corvettes are born, even here in DK we have some very skilled shops. I do my repair on my own, even the damages in the pic, and I enjoy doing it.
Best regards
Ole from DK

 

[jenniferadam]

Hello there,
I am new here, and my English is very bad, sorry in advance.
Mathiasen, the parking may be bad, but the car is very cool, "White Queen".

 

[Mannings]

Welcome aboard.The C3 looks great :dancer01: I was in Dortmund last year and visited a Corvette rally with over 20 vettes all different generations, your not alone over there. :thumbsup:

 

[mathiasen]

Hi all.
For sure I´m not alone. There are two corvette clubs in Denmark and the one I join have more than 700 members who all have at least one car, covering all 6 generations.
The weekend after easter, we have a cruise to the north of Germany. We make the headquarter in a small town called Tönningen, is on the shore of the Northsea. I´m looking forward to some stout german weisbeer and wurst after the cruise.
I´ll bring the camera and post pic. By now there are apx 30 cars who will be making the drive down the highway together.
It will only be a 170km drive from where we live, even though we are going to an other country.
Best regards
Ole from DK

 

[Rich Z]

"Corvette language"
In that case I have had some very deep conversations (pic)
Actualy Germen must be my 2. language, my wife is born in Essen, anyway thanks for the welcom greetings.
I been reading all of Rich Z posts about his engine, I was surprised that something like that happede in the country where the Corvettes are born, even here in DK we have some very skilled shops. I do my repair on my own, even the damages in the pic, and I enjoy doing it.
Best regards
Ole from DK

Man, what in the world caused that kind of damage to that piston? :ack2:

 

[mathiasen]

Hi Rich.

I found a bering ball size 6 mm solid imbedded in the piston. The 1. and 7. piston looked almost the same and the head (L-98) was beaten up in the same way.
I still have no answer to how the ball ended up inside my engine. In the club we have been talking about sabotage !!! but I don´t know. But I do know that it sounded awful when it happend, and most of the cooling water vent out of the exhurst pipes.
Best regards
Ole from Dk

 

[Rich Z]

Certainly does look nasty. Did any valves get damaged?

 

[mathiasen]

Hi Rich.
I changed all 4 valves, just to be on the safe side, but only one was bend. The head were taken apart to get welded up again. We have a shop i town that did a perfect job, you could not see a trace of the damages after the repair.
However the bottom of the engine only lasted a year or a little less, I took the chance that it surveived, but it started smoking and made a lot of blowby and use oil.
Regards from Ole