4thStroke
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Long story short, I ended up borrowing a friends set of FIC 2150s so I could crank up my car (1250s were maxed at 557awhp) and race an event over the summer. Event got cancled... go figure.
One night, I ended up ripping on the car, from a dead stop to the top of 3rd, I figure the car was north of 550awhp again, timing was somewhat held back. Shut the car off for a while, and when I got back in, it had a bad misfire when I ripped on it. This was the result when the dust settled.
Cylinder 4 went way lean, detonated, and torched a hole in the head, took out the head gasket (obviously), and hurt the block a little.
The injectors were sent in to FIC for inspection and cleaning. Two of the plugs had a horrible spray pattern and were not flowing like they should have been. There was a bunch of the infamous black good on the tip of all the injectors. The plugs were fine when they were installed and this was just a tank or two after I dropped them in.
ETS welded up the head and TIG'd the block. It should be driving within a couple weeks.
Keep an eye on those injectors if you are using ethanol. This was not a cheap fix and I got very lucky the indents in the block were as far out as they were, the block was almost trashed.
On a brighter note, cylinder 4 has never been so clean since that piston was dropped in over a couple years ago /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
One night, I ended up ripping on the car, from a dead stop to the top of 3rd, I figure the car was north of 550awhp again, timing was somewhat held back. Shut the car off for a while, and when I got back in, it had a bad misfire when I ripped on it. This was the result when the dust settled.
Cylinder 4 went way lean, detonated, and torched a hole in the head, took out the head gasket (obviously), and hurt the block a little.
The injectors were sent in to FIC for inspection and cleaning. Two of the plugs had a horrible spray pattern and were not flowing like they should have been. There was a bunch of the infamous black good on the tip of all the injectors. The plugs were fine when they were installed and this was just a tank or two after I dropped them in.
ETS welded up the head and TIG'd the block. It should be driving within a couple weeks.
Keep an eye on those injectors if you are using ethanol. This was not a cheap fix and I got very lucky the indents in the block were as far out as they were, the block was almost trashed.
On a brighter note, cylinder 4 has never been so clean since that piston was dropped in over a couple years ago /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif