Some of you may know that I recently sent a rod through the block of my 00GT w/minimal mods right around 93k miles...
Long story short : rod through the driver's side of the block haulin' ass up an on ramp after "retarding" timing via DSP....
Flashback: About a month ago I decided I was going to start doing some real mods since I got a tuner. But first I wanted to make sure I was running with decent equipment:
Flashback within a flashback a little over a year ago the mustang through a sparkplug on a road trip and I bought all new COP's and plugs and injectors and a fuel pump and it ran fine (after it temporarily developed a knock at the Ford dealership)... when I got it home and replaced all that stuff....
Anyway I did a compression test and all the cylinders were @ 155psi with no apparent leak down.... except cylinder #8. it was at 90psi. hmmm...
I also noticed a slight miss at low load conditions around 1500-1800rpms. All COP's checked out fine and all injectors seemed fine and all plugs seemed fine....
BlockHole:
right above the oilpan mating surface near the rear of the driverside (below Cyl#3) where I had the head helicoiled earlier this year with no problems up to this point (since).
Well when I pulled the oilpan off after taking the engine out I find it was the rod from cylinder #8 that decided it had had enough of the dark and was shedding light on everyone else...
Question is w/93K+ miles doe this sound like it was just a natural progression since last year or could it have been the tune?
Long story short : rod through the driver's side of the block haulin' ass up an on ramp after "retarding" timing via DSP....
Flashback: About a month ago I decided I was going to start doing some real mods since I got a tuner. But first I wanted to make sure I was running with decent equipment:
Flashback within a flashback a little over a year ago the mustang through a sparkplug on a road trip and I bought all new COP's and plugs and injectors and a fuel pump and it ran fine (after it temporarily developed a knock at the Ford dealership)... when I got it home and replaced all that stuff....
Anyway I did a compression test and all the cylinders were @ 155psi with no apparent leak down.... except cylinder #8. it was at 90psi. hmmm...
I also noticed a slight miss at low load conditions around 1500-1800rpms. All COP's checked out fine and all injectors seemed fine and all plugs seemed fine....
BlockHole:
right above the oilpan mating surface near the rear of the driverside (below Cyl#3) where I had the head helicoiled earlier this year with no problems up to this point (since).
Well when I pulled the oilpan off after taking the engine out I find it was the rod from cylinder #8 that decided it had had enough of the dark and was shedding light on everyone else...
Question is w/93K+ miles doe this sound like it was just a natural progression since last year or could it have been the tune?