New R&B V12 Rody – Roar legal

This weekend i’ve been buzy running in my new R&B V12 Rody – Roar Legal.

I’ve picked it up at the shop on wednesday and let the engine run it’s first tank on friday evening. That all went fine. Saterday was run-in day and i started the engine like normal. After another tank on the starter box i shut down the engine and turned the flywheel to put the cilinder in the lowest position. While doing that i noticed a ‘grind’. Feeling it more revield that my bearings where already damaged. This was nothing that i would expect from an R&B engine, and so we opened it, too see a mess inside. I don’t know what happend but it seems like oil was burned inside the engine and damaged it because it got thick. So damaging the bearings but also leaving lot’s of stuff on the crankshaft, on the cilinder and inside the cilinder.

I then called the shop and whent there just to receive a new engine that we ran inside the shop for the first two tanks. I ran in that engine on sunday and it works fine! I’m still hoping to hear what went wrong with the first engine, but i don’t believe it’s an error of the R&B production line. Maybe the oil that is used to protect the engine while it’s packed didn’t come loose right away? Maybe the oil in my fual wasn’t good. I hope to still hear from my shop about that.

What i do want to say is that the shop (2brothers RC) helped me on a saterday when it was quite buzy. They provided a new engine and spend lots of time starting that one up for the first time. Just to check if everything was ok for me and so i could have a good engine for the EC-B. I am really impressed by the service i received from them and i’m impressed by the R&B engine itself. It fast and it’s quite easy to tune. Running it in was also easy and i feel very confident with it on the track!