Engine Blew!

[B T]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

I was on it on the way to work. It was early, but I always drive aggressive. I hit a big bump during a pull, so I don’t know if that was part of it, but then it went.

That sounds eerily similar to what happened to my original engine. Cruising along the interstate, felt a small buck and instantly lost the motor. All I could find was maybe I either had a spot of bad gas or the DI clogged and ran lean causing a single large misfire. Sorry to see your engine go buddy. Were you running E85 or normal at the time?

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

I’m going to call tomorrow.

Keep us informed. I am on the fence with building an FA, but still concerned of their issues, or going with a K swap.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by B T

That sounds eerily similar to what happened to my original engine. Cruising along the interstate, felt a small buck and instantly lost the motor. All I could find was maybe I either had a spot of bad gas or the DI clogged and ran lean causing a single large misfire. Sorry to see your engine go buddy. Were you running E85 or normal at the time?

E85 exclusively.

[B T]

Mine started while using E85 from Louisiana and finally detonated a week later on the same fuel. In between, I put some Lucas Upper Cylinder and Fuel Treatment in there and it stopped my issues. I know I was a dumbass for putting that fuel back in my car without the treatment again.

[kg17]

So sorry to hear about what happened!

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Keep us informed. I am on the fence with building an FA, but still concerned of their issues, or going with a K swap.

I just got off the phone with Will from KPower Industries, and he was very helpful. He answered all my questions on the swap, and he said they will hopefully be taking preorders within the next few months for a mid-summer release a month later, assuming no problems. He said there will be a large preorder list because there is a lot of interest, which I am not surprised.

I will most likely be going this route, depending on if they follow through on time. I have nursing school starting in August, but I have a motorcycle, bicycle, wife's Q5 and Uber/Lift to get me through things.

I will break down the engine today and see how bad the damage is.

[Lantanafrs2]

How is any fa20 worth 43 grand?

[tomm.brz]

welcome to the club lol
drop the compression a bit and forge )

[tomm.brz]

welcome to the club lol
drop the compression a bit and forge )

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by tomm.brz

welcome to the club lol
drop the compression a bit and forge )

I know, right. It is a right of passage.

I'm leaning to do a K24 NA with E85 potentially, and then get through nursing school, and then pull the motor and build it up for boost. If I was considering a FA motor then it would be a FA24 swap, but used motors are not on the market, and I frankly prefer the K24, even though D4S is nice too.

[EAGLE5]

LS is always the answer.

[pope]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

I know, right. It is a right of passage.

I'm leaning to do a K24 NA with E85 potentially, and then get through nursing school, and then pull the motor and build it up for boost. If I was considering a FA motor then it would be a FA24 swap, but used motors are not on the market, and I frankly prefer the K24, even though D4S is nice too.

K20C1 with a custom intake manifold to add port injectors.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by EAGLE5

LS is always the answer.

Here you go @Irace86.2.0. I mean you don't need nursing school really do you?

Plus GM has a $250 rebate on them right now....

[Capt Spaulding]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

It probably would have been fine on the 85mm pulley. 75mm pulley puts the car around 400+, so doubling the horsepower on stock internals. I really think the bump had a big thing to do with it. That amount of sudden jarring jerk at 12+ psi at the time was enough probably, but who knows?

At the moment, I suspect you do.

Edit: Actually, I'm being a jerk. Sorry the engine let go. It's funny (not your situation, but the twisted reality) you can extract a lot of horsepower from these things, but like having one's cake and also eating it, you can't use it. I know next to nothing about quantum mechanics but I vaguely remember some property of particles that observing them makes them unfindable. (somebody help me here). In our case the engine can make a whole lot of power, but if you explore that power, the engine vanishes.

I am now convinced that the stock engine is just fast enough for this old man.