Crawford Built Short Block

[DJCarbine]

In that dyno chart it looks like your boost target was 9psi, was the target changed to 15, or was it an over boost condition when you said you registered 15

It's not very clear in the text

[continuecrushing]

Not gonna lie, I was pretty sad when I heard your engine made some extra holes in it a while back.

Glad to see it back on the road!

Hopefully I run into you on the road one day, I'd imagine were pretty close to each other.

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by texasbound972

Calling me by my full name, wow, am I in trouble Dad? First off, I never touched my car the day before the engine blew. That would be Evasive Motorsports which installed spark plugs to your specifications. Also, when you sent me the email originally, I had already taken that video off of YouTube. Instead of coming to me like a man, you cowardly send an email about it, not trying to resolve the issue but cutting ties altogether. But with my car having so many issues, I guess it was the perfect time and excuse to be done with me so you don't have to deal with my cars drama/issues.

And yet you didn't go to them to talk about the "bad tune", instead you just made a post blaming their tune for your engine blowing. Even though a vacuum line popping off isn't the fault of the tune in the slightest.

It's a little shocking that you're surprised to see them handle it this way. Why would any shop want to continue helping someone that bashes them in public?

Originally Posted by texasbound972

I say overboost because my torque app read over 30 psi. Even with the atmospheric pressure calculated in, that puts me at 15.3 psi. I stated that after I went to Phoenix and JDL found the issue with the vacuum line not clamped on and not connected, when installed properly yes, it was fast. I am not going out of my way to bad mouth anyone on any social media. People ask questions and I provide an honest opinion. If I don't know, then I say "it could of been but not sure". You've had engines blow up and so has every other tuner in the world. It's just the cost of doing business.

Isn't your updates to your tunes free? If your tunes are the reason a car isn't running right, why should I pay more for your mistakes that should of already been worked out? As for the CA-FI head unit, why wouldn't you make this right? Selling me a defective head unit and not trading it for a good one? Not very many people want to hear this is how you treat customers, mad at them or not. If you cannot swap out my head unit for one that actually has a micro SD drive in it, then I should be able to return it for a full refund and buy the same thing for half the price.

You know I really liked you guys, you helped me out a lot. You have worked on my car on a few occasions late at night and I am and was very grateful. It is hard to fathom all this bullshit over a little video that was deleted. Childish.

If it was overboost from a vacuum line coming off, that isn't a bad tune... but you specifically used the words "bad tune" when you've made it clear in multiple posts who tuned your car. That's a REALLY good way to lose support from a shop that has been helping you out.

[Dipstik-sportech]

I'm honestly surprised they answered you at all after the way you publicly bashed them. If I was them I'd just ignore your calls and put you on a blocked email list.

[stugray]

Maybe someone should invent a device that makes sure that you cannot overboost your engine.....

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by stugray

Maybe someone should invent a device that makes sure that you cannot overboost your engine.....

Like a spark cut on overboost? Wouldn't that be fancy

[Darryljr11]

Its called boost cut. It exists with ebc lol.

[xxscaxx]

Which is a very good reason why you should run one. Never understood why people even use MBC's anymore lol. They hold boost way better as well throughout the RPM range.

I keep seeing failures of wastegate lines popping off, vacuum lines popping off...those should be the #1 priority in terms of damage control. I bought all AN fittings for my EBC, wastegate, and anything else I could get my hands on in order to prevent that (OP this isn't pointed to you, just general comment).

To be fair, we don't know if OP was running an EBC or not though, since i haven't seen a mod list. Either way, sucks to have an engine blow up no matter what the cause.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by xxscaxx

Which is a very good reason why you should run one. Never understood why people even use MBC's anymore lol.

Why not?

Because everyone can tune remotely and cheap turbo/SC kits are available.

Even 10 years ago, there wasn't any issues like this with boosted applications. You'd have to get it tuned no matter what, so everyone started out with a crappy tune.

One thing a lot of people fail to realize is that the FA20 has a very high stock compression. While it is great from a Volumetric Efficiency perspective, it also means the margin for error is very very small.

It just comes with the territory of a new car + all this fancy 2015 remote tune stuff.

-alex

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by Darryljr11

Its called boost cut. It exists with ebc lol.

If the EBC relies on a vacuum line and that line pops off it's no help either.

You would need the EBC to be totally controlled by the ECU using the MAP sensor to avoid that.

[xxscaxx]

Because an electronic boost controller has a lot more to offer than a manual. Manual boost controllers are cheap and pretty reliable so can't knock that. I just like that you have better boost control and it doesn't bleed off boost like a MBC does.

There are positives and negatives to both, i've used both so its just my opinion.

[xxscaxx]

Originally Posted by wparsons

If the EBC relies on a vacuum line and that line pops off it's no help either.

You would need the EBC to be totally controlled by the ECU using the MAP sensor to avoid that.

This is a reason why I decided to AN fitting everything on my setup. One less thing to worry about.

[Darryljr11]

Originally Posted by wparsons

If the EBC relies on a vacuum line and that line pops off it's no help either.

You would need the EBC to be totally controlled by the ECU using the MAP sensor to avoid that.

None of which is a problem with my setup