Well I went to the track in Martin, Mi saturday. It's a hella nice track and it was a beautiful day. I made my first pass and bogged it on the line big time. So I decided to crank it up and giver hell on the next pass. I got mad wheel hop so I went to shift to second gear and just finish the run. No dice, the car wouldn't move so I shut it down. Obviously I reacted too slow. It was leaking something and as I was pushed off one of the guys was swearing that I threw a rod through the block. He was wrong it was tranny oil. The good news is the engine runs fine. It turns out I busted an axle, which I couldn't tell because it was busted inside and it looked like it was fine but popped out. My radiator looks fucked and some other stuff looks pretty messed up. Looks like new mounts, springs, radiator, and traction bars are in my future. A popular theory seems to be that I blew my head gasket and that, with boost pressure, caused my radiator to look like it does. I'm not so sure but I'm going to pull the head anyway. If nothing else this is a testament to the destructive power of wheel hop.


that should be one piece, note the twisted boot

the sides should be straight, not bowed

that bolt was in the bracket to support the turbo

flex pipe to the rescue, I think it saved me more damage to the turbo and exhaust by absorbing the relocation of the engine due to...

this is the only mount that doesn't look right it may be hard to see but it looks slightly buckled to me