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Old Dec 2, 2003 | 11:19 AM
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Gee christ I'm getting sick of blowing engine's. This is the 3rd one I've blown this year and the 4th overall. Can't figure out why this one blew up. A/F's were 11.3 to 10.8 Water injection was working. Car was washed. Tranny Fluid/Diff fluid was just changed. Radiator was just flushed. Oil has less than 1000 km. Interior wasn't vacuumed....and I just passed our emissions inspection today.



I was planning on pulling my engine to fix my oil leak aka Exxon Valdez....guess I'll be doing it sooner than I thought...****....I blew my engine.



Old Dec 2, 2003 | 11:54 AM
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sorry, but vacumed interior and washed car just made me laugh out loud!
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 12:04 PM
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just get some duct tape and hot glue... then i am sure you know what to do!





duct tape is the ****!
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by rxrotary2_7' date='Dec 2 2003, 11:54 AM
sorry, but vacumed interior and washed car just made me laugh out loud!
LOL..Me too!





Sorry about the motor man..
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 01:25 PM
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always in good spirits...but **** I BLEW MY ENGINE....AGAIN!!!



I wonder if IGY will let me get his bridgeport endplates
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 01:27 PM
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that sucks i have an awesome motor sitting in my basement!
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by vosko' date='Dec 3 2003, 04:27 AM
that sucks i have an awesome motor sitting in my basement!
It can't be the motors...it HAS to be my tuner
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 07:03 PM
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Your A/F ratios where on the safe side. If you broke an apex seal I will point you towards your ignition timing. Sounds like you might have a little bit of to much advanced timing. What did your engine break? Make sure you go in with a 2 cycle timing light and check your timing at idle, trailing idles at 20 degrees After Tod Dead Center and leading at 5 degrees ATDC. gives us more info. Maybe we could help a little.
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by jspecracer7' date='Dec 2 2003, 07:37 PM
It can't be the motors...it HAS to be my tuner
Tuning is very basic. All you need is safe A/F ratios and a safe timing map. I have found that on some cars while the laptop was reading for example; -20 for trail and -5 for leading at Idle, the actual real time ignition timing was way of and working on a more advance timing. When this happens, your timing is way off. I always advice to go in and check actual real time ignition timing with a proper timing light.
Old Dec 2, 2003 | 08:17 PM
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I blew the engine last night and will be pulling it apart this weekend to see what the damage is.



My timing is set at 16 degrees leading under boost(1.05 kilos)



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