A number of weeks ago I took the Impuls Sport down to a local beach for a bit of a spin. Had great fun on the day and the car got completely messed and full of sand (hey that's all part of the fun).
After I got the car home I stripped it down, cleaned it up and rebuilt it.
During the rebuild I decided to fire up the engine (just to make sure that everything was fine). The only thing was that I decided to do this before I'd put the wheels on. The car was on a stand on the bench, what could possibly go wrong! What I didn't realise was that the wheels produced a flywheel / governor effect :-( Anyway, I started then engine, let it tick over for a few seconds to warm up and then gave it a bit of a rev. The revs went up and up and then DOWN! oops, seized engine.
I took the engine off and started to strip it, as soon as I took the exhaust off some shards of metal fell on the bench which was not a good sign. After I got all the bits of metal out the engine would turn over again but I will need to fix it properly before I try to start it. I'm not sure what the bits of metal are from, the apparent curve radius seems too small for them to be the cylinder liner, I'm guessing it's probably part of a bottom end bearing.
I tried to remove the cylinder head but the screws are completely seized. I'll need to eventually drill them out I think.
I ordered up a cheap engine from China through ebay to get me running until I could get time to properly sort out the original one.