Check out my Trophy! 1ZZ-FE R.I.P.

Check out my Trophy! 1ZZ-FE R.I.P.

I took my snapped connecting rod from when I blew my engine under boost and decided to make a Trophy out of it to remember that experience



Plus its a great conversation peice

Another reason not to close the board, cause you have die hard Corolla guys out there like me that won't abandon the Rolla no way no how

amazing how much to make another unique trophy ?
lol... $7000?

looks extremely cool.

Nah, this one cost me about ~$2400 With a little luck it will remain 1 of a kind

Yup

The base is actually two seperate peices of metal I mix welded and ground down, you can't even tell. I need to find other artsy stuff to weld since I had so much fun doing this

I took the Rolla off the insurance today for the winter, I'm going to use this time to strip down the interrior and redo the CarPC and fiberglass integrate all the stuff like the Apexi SAFCI, etc. I'm also going to do some work on he exhaust system before installing the wideband and installing the oil cooler. Hopefully this will all be done before summer so I can sand her down, body filler her and shoot on a fresh new coat of paint

man i wish i had that.

thats goofy and funny! where do you put that

It is sitting in my office here at work, people walk in and say "What the hell did you get that for?" and then I can tell them the whole story about my exciting adventure in blowing engines. It's a great conversation peice

hehe man that's a good idea. I wish I did that with my first motor also.

damn it, these are one of those moments when I think to myself "why didnt i think of that".......

Hehehe Yeah it took me a few months to think of it, I'm glad I hung on to the rod.

I might have to send my busted up rod pieces and piston to you sometime. Lol.

dang... ive never thrown a rod... or even damaged a bearing. is that from massive detonation or what?

correct me if im wrong but.........five years at 12psi....not too shabby..

LOL

That's a great way to show your Corolla pride

Nah... The engine was 5 years old but was only running boost for about 1000 miles

ouch

Yeah, friends don't let friends run 12 psi on a bad tune and a incorrectly installed eManage

oh sh*t, lol....didnt even have enough miles for an oil change...

i know the feeling, but mine went at ~15psi running on the stock ecu and wiring blowing through the stock maf... it ran like a champ in every gear but 5th where the ecu couldnt keep up with the fuel requirments.

Yeah... I'm having another go at it though, got a new engine and now I just have to find the time to re-wire the emanage & CarPC so I can fire her back up and drive her again. I miss being pulled back in my seat when I jumped in to boost, that was a great feeling. I fired up the car yesterday and let it idle for a while just cause I didn't want to leave it for months with running it and it sounds like it is running okay but you can tell by the wierd idle that the emanage is still fighting the ECU because the cylender order is wrong.