FRS300 Rebuild Has Begun..Blown Motor to Built Monster
 

Well as most of you already know frs300 suffered a tragic engine failure shortly after the installation of his Full Blown turbo kit. What we are doing is documenting the rebuild process to get him back up and running over the next few weeks.

We had the car shipped to us and shortly afterwards inspected the original installation before pulling the motor to access the total damage.

he has a nice parking spot this week next to the GHOST im working on and tuning later this week. Good company LOL.

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OLD MOTOR OUT
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NEW SHORT BLOCK ARRIVED
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TUCKED AWAY NICELY BY THE BODY GUARDS
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INSPECTION OF DAMAGE
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NET RESULT 3 BUSTED RODS :(

Any word on what caused it?

honestly i want to keep this thread about the build the old thread will be open to continue discussing the damage and potential causes. ill post any findings there but i already looked over the install and everything seemed fine. wastegate spring was correct and vacuum routing was fine when the car arrived here. so as far as a boost spike i dont see that being valid from the condition i received the vehicle.

Specs on new motor? Or just a new one without a boost spike this time lol

new pics coming on the built motor and head

Low pres pistons +rods maybe ..... Please say yes :(

Wow, pretty impressed with what you guys are doing to help him out. Some companies would just say that it's not their problem, but you guys are going over and above what I expected. Kudos to your company. I will definitely look into your turbo set up, even moreso than before, when I decide to go FI. Someone I know here in Omaha has an S2000 tuned by you guys, and now I can see why he trusts driving his car there and back from Omaha.

can u provide the old thread u mentioned?

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32404 I believe.

The pics of that bottom end look much like my bottom end after some bad shellfish. It burns!

Good luck with the build I'm excited for the results

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I assume the new build will use all of the existing Full Blown kit (if it's not damaged)?

.... he's (FRS300) paying for it all....

In for Win on this build!

sorry i guess there is a bit of confusion. Brandon is paying for the repairs and this was not our kit on the car originally. we offered to help out in the situation since he was somewhat local to us and the situation seemed bad so i offered some assistance to get him back up and running.

yes the existing kit will be reused i might tweak a few things before i reinstall it back on the car if anything comes to mind. kit seems solid from glancing at it but we just yanked it off pretty fast since we were showered with oil when we unbolted the header with about 1.5 quarts of oil in the damn manifold.

Can't wait to see more pics. Question is he moving on to a fa20 turbo or staying full blown? Also in my best fast 2 furious voice"
Evo.. When did you get a evo?"

Nevermind turbo question answered.

the motor is being assembled inhouse by us and the car will be tuned by us when the work is completed.

@feldy, See above.

So whats the cost of building it and reinstalling?

the price brandon is paying is probably not indicative of what someone else would pay. simple because the damage that was to done to his engine warranted more parts be replaced than normally would need be in a engine build.

my poor AMSoil

let me know when you get the ferrea valves from fbm

under $10k

I can't wait to see the results of this.

anyone seen any fa20 built motor numbers?

I'm in watching this to see the potential, and to learn a bit more about our cars. Thanks for the thread!

I was not aware of anyone running a motor with lower compression pistons yet. I think there was a guy in Texas with an Accelerated kit that was putting pistons in, but I haven't seen him post recently. Full Blown is waiting to blow theirs up to install pistons. I have definitely considered just swapping in lower compression pistsons and rods to get some more power.

Crawford is too.

Accelerated is up to 750hp now...

i thought that was on a stock motor though?



FA20 Block
Ferrea valve train
Carrillo H Beam Rods
CP 10:1 CR Pistons
Stock Cams
New Heads
Bearings
Gaskets


everything is new except the cams and crank

Any details about the valve train? I didn't know that it was available yet

Yeah, I saw that. I was looking for a link to the specifics - price, max rpm limit etc

Thanks I had already seen the answer and it was in my post that I said never mind. :)

They mention the valve train on the website but they dont have any specs or anything that i was able to find. As of right now they are making them as orders are placed. I paid $900 for valves, springs, guides, locks, retainers and springs but there is a 3-4 week wait to make the valves. I didnt feel like waiting so i ordered just the valves from someone else.

Haha oops. That was late last night and I guess I just thought you guys were Full Blown because that was his turbo he got. I so stupid. I need to start getting to bed earlier.