Pics/stories Of Peoples Projects Gone Wrong!!!!!!!

[Joey_19]

Any1 Wanting 2 Show OR TELL ABOUT The Mess They Caused Tryn 2 Do There Own Work Go Ahead Might Help Others Or Stop Other People From Doin It In That Certain Way anything from body 2 interior 2 engine

[T-ROY]

ye my mate sprayed his whole engine bay, then decided he didnt like tha colour then sprayed it a diff colour then changed his mind again, so now its just a mix of peelin and ****ty sprays :P

[Bax]

I was about to say

"What the hell is wrong with spraying your engine bay - then respraying it a different colour" haha. That's what I did.

I really dislike people that paint their engine bay's black. Just doesn't look right.

So projects that have gone bad, care to elaborate?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Would anybody actually admit it???? Oh yeah....a 'mate' did this.....

[T-ROY]

lol yesss a mate.............. sum1 who drives a vr calais.... who makes up a stupids posts

[Joey_19]

i believe t-roy is referring 2 me i did sum expieriment paint jobs that turned out ok but then tried 2 change em over and over and it just wrecked everything the started 2 change stuff back 2 stock now so its all good
i painted my radiator hose white worst mistake ever did then turps it off then it started 2 sag and yeh its not been the same since lol

tried 2 buff my car at back burnt lil section of paint



cant think of anymore atm will post more problems

[88GreenVN]

I've got a good one. Dad was putting new timming chain in the sigma motor 2.6 way back in 1988. An old mate came over to help him and they got the dots wrong on the sproket. The motor chucked a rod 120km down the road. It was specky with a great cloud of smoke with a clater clater sound. The car made a further 30kms getting slower all the time. Stopped 20km short of Pt Augusta. Cost $2,000 for a whole new engine. Yep just for a Sigma motor! Mum wouldnt let him fix it again not even from the wreckers.

[Patrio7]

installed a head unit into mycar, sits a fraction too high and the rear speakers are channel swapped..... cbf fixing :P

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

I did an engine rebuild on a Datsun ute with a 1.2 when I was 18. Used a crank from a 1.6, all went well...or so I thought...the only thing that wouldnt go in were the thrust shims on the mains....the things that stop the crank from going forwards and backwards. Got about 100kms when the temp shot up, the oil light came on and them rattle rattle rattle BANG. threw a big end, the rod came back down on the cam and threw it out the side of the block and through the guard. Was about 2 in the morning and I was about 30kms from my town. Had to wait for the bread truck to come past at 4am to give me a tow home.

[ephect]

I had to replace the tensioner pulley when it become very noisy, nedless to say me and my cuzing where wrenching the thing when we thought we had it, when we cracked it, (the first twist). then dad come home saw us straining and walked over and watched for a lil, then leaned over and said, its left hand thread! we cracked up laughing for a while, then headed into town for a new tensioner assembly

learning is fun, and expensive

[Juzza]

This'd be a nice thread for General or The Pub, how come only posted in the VR - VS Forum? Or is that a dangerous question to ask ..

Don't really have any pics but a pretty fun story, I had a blue VH SL/X a while ago, great condition the only problem was the blue 202 motor in it was broken (holes in three cylinders) so I bought a black 202 motor for it. Problem was when we used the Super Cheap hoist the motor went up out of the back of the guys ute, paid him and he left, then a bad thing happened. It wouldn't go down low enough to reach the ground (a good.. meter or two) so what did we do? Couldn't leave the engine hanging from the garage roof so it was Safeway Trolley to the rescue! And that is where the motor sat for about 2-3 months (I lost interest at the time), and finally we decided to get it out of there and return the trolley.. well that was interesting wasn't it, laid out some stocky tires on the ground and tipped the trolley (seemed like a good idea) and if I recall correctly the motor bounced slightly, then there was a mess of oil everywhere, all over the tires and it was a pretty sad sight..

Both the car and motor are gone now, probably the closest I had got to a roadworthy car, but that'll change in a few months

Lesson learned: Use rope when moving an engine around with a hoist, not the actual hoist itself!

[walesy]

haha juzza dont you know when dropping a 202 it should be attached to a chain and over the side of a boat... good anchors