Spill it guys, I'm not going to wait another week to find out what happened myself.

It wasn't the alternater bracket was it? I recall someone saying something about one of those at a rally once...

whats going on ?

You stuffed an alternator bracket I've got one you can have.

Tell me if you need any help burning the midnight oil is what I do best.

Nah, his A12 Gx motor let go on the second to last stage on day 1. After trying to find 10 thou under bearings at 7:30pm on Thursday night with no luck I gave him my motor out of my sunny.
We went back to my workshop, parked both cars nose to nose and preceeded to swap motors!

A marathon effort! we finished at about 1:30am and ian drove back to his hotel. The cars obviously not as quick now but its good reconnaissanse for next year....
where he will do extremely well

Cheers. Adam.

What went wrong with the engine?
Lets face it, these A series engines are very well known & have been built as race engines with great success for decades, so building a strong engine is almost a process of connecting the dots these days.

Generally speaking, they are so good that as long as there is oil in the pan, you can't break the bottom end, so something wasn't right.
Hopefully he will make a good showing with the replacement engine & proudly fly the flag right to the last hurrah.

Ahh, well there was a slight chance that was going to happen. He had this motor prepared essecially for this rally and mabey 1-2 odd races if it was still alive

Some nice photo's on this site, one of Ian.

http://www.rallysportmag.com.au/home/index.php?option=com_galleria&task=show_thumbs&pagenum=8&rID=16

I took these at Macclesfield yesterday:

Well...They finished!

I hope they had a good time - I can't wait till I compete!!!

6500 to enter a lil steep