Unfortunately it blew today. The thing that makes it worst is, it's all my fault. I have been working with a tuner in Florida to try and get a tune forthe car. Between the downloading of the original back up file and the orginal canned tune, I messed it up somewhere and either loaded the wrong tune or didn't load properly to begin with. I don't know and don't really care at this point. I hadn't driven my car in a week and had completely forgotten about messing with the tuner.

I started my car as usual today and noticed when I started it, I felt a strange vibration like it was missing. It idled slightly differently but for whatever reason, the red flag didn't go up and I forgot I had been messing with the tuner. I let it warm up for a few mintues and then very casually, drove out of the neighborhood and onto the main boulovard leading to where I was going to do some data logging for the tuner. From a stop,I went through 1st and into 2nd normally (like an old white man)and about halfway through 2nd I gave it some more pedal, not to the floor by any means, the car vibrated and a large plume of the most beautiful blue smoke rolled out the back of the car. It then died and I knew what happened. I coasted to a stop and tried to start it. The car wouldn't even turn over. It siezed. I popped the hood and saw oil on the underside and all over the driver side inner fender well. Oh well. The car is too low to get a jack underneath it right now so pics will have to wait until later when I get it up (no jokes please)and can actually look underneath the car at the carnage.

So now the plans for a built motor start. I'm thinking a 298 ci forged short block,1 mm oversize valves, fuel pump upgrade, GT 500 TB and call it good. Oh, and maybe tuned ??

I will most likely trailer the car down to San Bernardino, CA to let ST motor sports work their magic. I have no idea about what motormanufacture (MMR, DSS, CHP or ???)to use and really don't care. If ST motorsports is okay with taking the ball and running with it, so am I.

Any helpful thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Damn.... Budget?

 

Get in line for ST Motorsports.

 

sorry to hear it simon1

it's odd it didn't throw a dtc, while
you were driving away from the house

if you had a a/f gauge, do you think
it would have made any difference in
the outcome

hope it gets built better and stronger
then ever

 

That sucks! Good thing you can afford to just fix it. If my block 'sploded the car would be sitting for months before I could even start planning on fixing it.

 

Obviously I want it done ASAP, but I really want it done right. My schedule will coincide with theirs like most shops. . .

 

I was thinking the same thing abou the engine codes but??? I'm know computer guru, don't pretend to be.

As far as the A/F ratio. I have an AEM wideband A/F gauge. The thing is, it happened so fast I never got the chance to look at it. I really never do unless I am actually doing a run to check it.

I just checked the boost gauge and saw it read 10.9 psi. Really that's 10.3 or so and I have ran that psi since I got the turbo and the A/F would top out around 11.8 or so. I probably didn't clear the last high reading on the gauge so I will never know what the actual boost was at the time of explosion.

 

Budget? What's that mean?

I really don't know. I don't like to toot my own horn, but I have the money to run side by side with Modaddict, but I choose to not do it. I am very , how shall I say, frugal? with my money. Cheap things cost too much, so I buy the expensive ones that last forever.

I am married with little kids so I need to save some for later. LOL

 

Sorry to hear about your motor. Adam will be able to build it and tune it properly. You will not be dissappointed
Go big bore 331ci, I would if I was to do it over again. Calihpaddict has a turbo with that block set up and NA he got 359rwhp before the turbo was put on

 

500-600 streetable HP with room to grow with be nice. My turbo can support 620 I beleive, it's 60 mm,so I think something in the mid 500s isn't asking much.

369 N/A is great.