when DRZ's go wrong.

[elskipador]

couple of shots from a certain member's drz that went pop on the freeway one eveing.

 

[elskipador]

whats all this :confused

 

[RZ331]

OUCH

 

[elskipador]

oh, its this stuff :wow

 

[auntiebling]

so that's what 'grenaded a piston' means....

 

[elskipador]

small-end of the rod. OUCH!

 

[elskipador]

even broke the cylinder walls.

 

[jrbruin]

oh damn, what the hell happened? I'm guessing the bottom end was totally fubared as well, so it's new motor time?

^ that answers THAT question

 

[elskipador]

total destruction.

 

[Ozymandias]

That didn't just go "pop", that went thermonuclear.

 

[elskipador]

oh damn, what the hell happened?

it grenaded @ wide open throttle in 5th or 6th gear on 101 north.

 

[Ant]

:rose

 

[Johndicezx9]

it grenaded @ wide open throttle in 5th or 6th gear on 101 north.

I saw a KLR motor do the same thing under similar circumstances...

 

[jrbruin]

DRZs only have 5 gears right? So is this the risk of having the revs too high?

 

[Ironbutt]

Oil is SOOO over rated..

 

[DrHeathenScum]

China Syndrome!

 

[MotoWhip101]

I've never tried to J.B. Weld a jigsaw puzzle together but it looks like you have quite the project ahead of you!! KIDDING

But, FYI I did see a DRZ 400 engine on e-bay recently...

 

[slydrite]

DRZs only have 5 gears right? So is this the risk of having the revs too high?

I was wondering the same thing...

there's a lot of new to DS/SM bike riders that think that their bikes can do extended freeway riding...even many 6 speed thumpers were not designed to do extended high rpm riding

 

[elskipador]

extended, wide open throttle is the worse kind of normal riding, for a single's life span.

 

[fawndog]

it grenaded @ wide open throttle in 5th or 6th gear on 101 north.

No shit, you'all motard riders should not rev it so high so long. That must have been scary.