The number 2 piston underwent some detonation. I am suspecting fuel starvation to that cylinder. I'm sitting at 56,000 miles.
I'm going to go through TurboTrix for all the parts and machining. My plans are to stick with the 2.0L and build the bottom end and head to support 9K rpms and upwards of 600whp. I'll have to stick with the stock turbo for now, but I plan to get the most out of it. I'll be swapping over to a 10.5 hotside and maybe doing some porting of the exhaust manifold.
I had been saving up to get the TT turbo kit, but looks like my engine build is moving up on the schedule, HAHA. You have to always look at the postive side.

 

Couple of more.

 

How much boost when u blew? What kind of HP/TQ?

 

You can get yourself a Buschur Block that is stroked to rev to 8700RPMS, why not try that? All you need is a short block.


Also talk to Nick at PDT, he does good work for good $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

I was running 21psi on 93. You can look at my dyno charts in my registry, but I was making 356whp/349ft lbs.

 

Thanks man. I will keep my options open, but I'm really true to TT. Mark and Paul are the best guys to hang out with and I trust them to build and tune the engine.

 

Damn Bary sucks to hear that but hey more motivation to come faster and stronger . Good luck with the new project

 

Hey thanks man.

 

hmm, any reason why the motor went, that doesn't seem like a whole lot to be pushing this motor past its reliability?

 

What do you think caused the fuel starvation in that one cylinder?
What are you using to tune the car? What injectors are you running in the car?

 

Man I hate reading these kinda posts but I'm glad your staying optimistic. So was it an injector failure, maybe it didn't seat right, bad wiring, faulty spring/ball in the injector? I always have that fear for some reason. What fuel mods do you have?

 

That's nice, how much does TT charge for a rebuild?

 

I'm using the stock injectors and a custom flashed ECU. I'm going to send the stock injectors to RC and have them take a look at them. I suspect a bad injector. I want to know what happened before I run the new engine once I get it together. I'm sure nothing was wrong with the tune since I have been running a TT custom flash for almost a year.

 

I guess they tuned it real good for detonation.

 

Good luck on the rebuild, sorry about the melt down in good ol' #2.

If you do you own Hotside swap (or even if you don't) look at the metal gasket between the Hotside and the 02 housing. Mine was the wrong shape and causing a slight blockage. I had a new one on hand just in case I needed it ($10) so I replaced it.

I had 272I / 264E cam set up with full exhaust (etc) and noticed improved mid to top end and spool up, better low torque while still off boost as well after the Hotside install.
I have a Dynorad in the car and it showed an improvement of at least 15-20 HP. I kept trying to get repeatable figure but I had "company" show up and started watching me. Then, a few weeks later the car got hit before I could finish off testing it, waiting for similar weather conditions to return.
But in my case it was like the "other half" of the Cam upgrade. They were great but this opened things up even more.

It is a great mod. especially for the $. I had my concerns in the begining but it worked out very nicely.

I developed a few short cuts, even beyond the How To that is posted on this site. It's written as a companion to it. It's makes it much safer when removing the Ex Mani and Hotside housing.
If you are interested, I'll PM you with it.

As far as porting, everything looked pretty opened up and smooth when I had mine apart, but for your goals it could be an option, A really good ex manifold might be a better use of your money, even though it's more exspensive. I prefer the stock for my level, but it seems every Evo that I have seen in your goal range goes to a tube manifold.

Good Luck with your rebuild!