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Originally Posted by Tcoat
They made several changes in late 13 and one of those may very well have fixed the oil issue. I understand you got caught by it but that does not for one second mean it is epidemic nor even common. Of the minority on here that have had the issue almost all were the #4 bearing and most of them involved blockage of the oil journals to that bearing. The mileage for most of these failures was under 50K. Your failure is extremely rare in that you had higher mileage and it was not the #4 bearing.
As far as the rod failures go they have virtually all been under boost. I would guess that the ones that were not suffered an serious over rev mis shift even if the owners swear they never did.
There is zero evidence to start running around yelling the shy is falling and that all the cars are going to fail.
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rod != rocker
Like you say, rods seem to only go under boost which is totally expected and the same on any engine. But we aren't talking about rods here.
#4 was from blockage (although I've only seen you say that, I'd love to read more about a case like this), #2 and #3 are common to go because they share a gallery. Follow this thread closely:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...&postcount=742
It's got lots of very good info and from what I am reading oiling has NOT improved on newer engines. What changes are you referring to that improved oiling? I've read one post where someone heard from a friend that they changed the galeries in the timing cover but having taken mine appart I really don't see where the timing cover could be a mierical fix. Element Tuning claims they have been able to solve the oiling issue with a mod to the block.
All I know is I've never had a car that spins a bearing unless it's low on oil. I drive the piss out of all my cars (red line at least 30 times every single day) and get tons of miles out of all of them. The FRS has been drivin 1/2 as hard (not even seeing red line most days) as I've drivin all my other cars because it sounds like a ticking time bomb.