Anyone blown a stock boosted motor yet?

[cdrazic93]

Originally Posted by King Tut

Can you explain to me how you guess that you over revved? You either did or you didn't. You had a rev limiter in the tune I am guessing. Did you do a money shift?

My guess is money shot, or valve rocker.

[texasbound972]

Originally Posted by DeliciousTuning

Mr. Aaron Chambers,

At this time, we have gone above an beyond to support you, taking care of all your requests for updates to your tune and diagnosing idle issues for improperly installed components at no charge to you.

Now you are stating a "bad tune" caused your engine to fail, but you have failed to mention you worked on your own vehicle the day before your engine blew. Did you maybe forget to hook up a vacuum line? That would cause an over-boost condition. You did state that after working on your vehicle it was a LOT faster, which it should have not been any different then before you worked on the vehicle. This leads us to think there was an over-boost condition that you brought on by an installation error.

Also if you really had a problem with the tune, you would have not come back for another tune after your engine blew, correct? But yet you came back for another tune from us on your new engine.

I am sorry but purposely going out of your way to bad mouth us behind our backs, online, on forums, on Facebook is uncalled for. We have been more then generous and at this time we will no longer support your tune, or anything to do with with your vehicle.

Furthermore if you have a problem with your CA-Fi unit please contact the manufacturer directly.

Regards,
William Knose
Delicious Tuning

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.

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.

[nelsmar]

Uh... every time I see a post regarding @texasbound972's engine (although I haven't followed it all) and someone asks what happens he typically didn't answer or said tune. And when he was asked who the tuner was he avoided answering in every instance I saw... And I saw he was running another tune from delicious so I don't see any bad mouthing here...

I have no idea what happened with his car or why it blew up but have seen a few casual posts in the past. He seems to be aware that cars blow up, and this is an expensive game to play. But maybe I missed a few crucial posts.

[Lonewolf]

The more I see this crap, the more I think the 2013's can't handle boost without internals and a good tune...sheesh

[xxscaxx]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

The more I see this crap, the more I think the 2013's can't handle boost without internals and a good tune...sheesh

No car can handle boost without a good tune if you want to get technical.

[robr]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

The more I see this crap, the more I think the 2013's can't handle boost without internals and a good tune...sheesh

Boosted or not, a bad tune is hard to handle.

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

The more I see this crap, the more I think the 2013's can't handle boost without internals and a good tune...sheesh

You just see more 2013 with boost because those people have had the car for a long enough time / warranty expired / finally saved up enough for boost.

[Marcoscrdo]

One thing i don't notice in this posts about blown engines is the oil type. I have heard another very important fact is the oil type..

[ATL BRZ]

Kraftwerks C38 owner on Facebook just windowed his block in 2nd gear part throttle.



Delicious e-tuned at 17psi on the high boost pulley with E85. Stock motor.

[IBill4You]

Do we have enough failures with details to point to a common theme?

[raven1231]

Originally Posted by IBill4You

Do we have enough failures with details to point to a common theme?

Naturally aspired engine running forced induction

[FrX]

Originally Posted by King Tut

Can you explain to me how you guess that you over revved? You either did or you didn't. You had a rev limiter in the tune I am guessing. Did you do a money shift?

It's possible. If I did money shift it, it wasn't something blatant like a 3->2(instead of 4) shift. Maybe a premature downshift without bleeding enough speed.

I say guessing because I honestly don't remember exactly what my own actions were slightly before the failure. I wasn't logging, and wasn't taking any video. So I really don't have much to go on besides my own memories, which are mostly filled with "That's not a very good noise! Lets get off-line and out of the way of the other cars!".

Either way, I am not blaming the failure on anything else but myself. I've already dropped the money on a replacement block and drove the car to work this morning (sans turbo).

[Astroboy]

Originally Posted by FrX

It's possible. If I did money shift it, it wasn't something blatant like a 3->2(instead of 4) shift. Maybe a premature downshift without bleeding enough speed.

I say guessing because I honestly don't remember exactly what my own actions were slightly before the failure. I wasn't logging, and wasn't taking any video. So I really don't have much to go on besides my own memories, which are mostly filled with "That's not a very good noise! Lets get off-line and out of the way of the other cars!".

Either way, I am not blaming the failure on anything else but myself. I've already dropped the money on a replacement block and drove the car to work this morning (sans turbo).

How much was the replacement blow? Also, How much is the install charge?

[FrX]

Originally Posted by Astroboy

How much was the replacement blow? How much is the install charge as well?

Roughly 3k from LKQ. A full log block minus accessories. It was out of wrecked car with ~20k miles. I swapped it out myself. One weekend to take out the old motor. A week or two waiting on some replacement seals/gaskets/etc to come in, and another weekend to put the new one in.