Did a run and in 4th gear it popped and the engine died. I had to pop start the engine and its running shitty. Time for compression test. The boost gauge is bouncing around like crazy at idle, and the car has absolutely no power. The turbo is fine and spools feely. I think i took out an apex unfortunately. The car sounds like a damn subaru boxter engine now


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Pretty sure that sucker is blown man. This happened with alky injection? Definitely track down the problem so it doesnt happen again.

If you want to send Ihor and I the motor, we can get ya back on the road in no time

 

kaput

 

Oh damn Eric, I am so sorry to hear that bro......

 

Sorry man RIP!

 

Damn sorry to hear. You think maybe you spiked or something?

 

No idea what happened. It was running strong all day. I dont really think it could have spiked, and i have had it spike to 24psi before when it was way colder outside. Not only that, but my wastegate will only allow 20psi before it starts to dump.

 

Crap gas? Alcohol injection skipped?

Oh well, we'll probably never know.

 

Sucks dude! You can rebuild it make it stronger we have the technology.....=)

 

LS2 it.....

 

no, no, no my friend...20b it!

When I destroyed mine 4 months ago the apex seals did a lot of damage to the housing and took out the turbine at the same time.

how many miles on it????

 

Yeah, but who wants to spend 6 million on a rebuild?

 

I won't mention any names, but they're installing his engine now j/k!!!

 

*yawn* cheby motors belong in cheby cars

 

Yea i dont want a trnansgender transplant ill just keep the twins!

 

Could have been a bad tune?

 

I'd thoroughly check the meth system for kinks/leaks/wiring problems/blockages.

 

^^ Yes... do you have more details on your tune you would like to share (A/F ratio, boost pressure, fluid temps [oil, water, air], aux injection volume, leading ignition timing & split, engine mods, miles on motor/tune, known problems.... etc.)? Just trying to document the failure, learn from it, and prevent it from happening again!

I'm so sorry to hear of your potential loss, get a compression check and let us know...

 

same thing happened to me man, did a pull 1st-4th, car was feeling strong no knocks then all of a sudden it just stopped pullin so i let off and the car turned off. That was in spring of 07 i'm just now starting to rebuild it. jusy get her fixed and back on the road.

 

I've had that happen to me but it turned out to be a bad tune. She shut off on me while cruising and had to gimp home. Sorry 2 hear it.

 

Kan tune, 20psi with 91% denatured alcohol that i just fulled up, the hose is in tact and not kinked, 1/2 bridge motor, the A/F ratio was in the 11.8 range i believe is what i was tuned to.

I dont think it was the tune, i have ran the engine many times with this tune. The engine had probably 6k miles on it.

 

Did u have a wideband hooked up? what meth kit r u using, failsafe?

When are you cracking it open?

 

i have the aem wideband hooked up. Im using the aqua mist kit

 

sad story :^(

 

so damn....i guess that kind of sets you back a little huh? good luck with the next motor. make this one crack 500.

and any theories at all?