Helped a fellow DSMer with his "broken" DSM. Is there any other kind, eh? Anyway, took a quick shot of something we "removed" from his head (his engine's head that is). Anyone interested in guessing what this is?

I realize the pic's a bit blurry so I'll offer a hint: that's a screw/bolt extractor I'm holding (and, yes, in case you're wondering, I do get occasional work as a hand model).

glad to see everything "came out all right"

Brutal.

Man, the pistons on these little four bangers are TINY!

Looks like a heli-coil to me!

It's the business end of a spark plug minus all the internals.

Its either the ignitor for the flux capacitor or part of the pressure release valve on the boost fluid tank!

I will name it Jillian.

BPR7ES. I'd re gap it before I tried to use it again.

So thats where that spring from my dog's moonshoes went... I wonder why I was a bit lopsided

We have a winner!

Seriously, as many of you have probably guessed, it's the business end of a spark plug. If the owner of the DSM it came from wants to reveal himself, so be it. I'll never tell. Certainly I've never f*cked up anything on my car. (Yeah, rrrrright!!!)

(One time I had to push a close friend out of a perfectly good airplane when in a drunken stupor he mentioned witnessing one of my t-belt changes).

Hey this is kinda a fun game, we should play "guess the broken dsm part" more often.