20w-50 or 5w-50

 

My thought are that mits went the cheaper way out on many of the parts on this car, esp on the 03s. I think the rod bolt issue is just one of the many problems that presents itself with contunued use of the car. Just like the clear coat issue (wing, brakes), crappy paint issue headlight gear issue just to name a few. A lot of these can easily be fixed with with slightly higher quality parts. Some of which looks to have been included on the newer models. I know that some folks try and pass of damage like this to the dealership to get it covered, but its kind of the same as car insurance, just because people are commiting insurance fraud, doesnt meen that your claim shouldnt be paid especially since you are paying your hard earned money for it. We paid for our warantees in our buy price, whatever you paid for the car, and then when issues like this guys come about we get treated as if we are trying to pull something on them. Especially when its painfully obvious. I took my car in with the mods I had at the time as I never believed that a TBE and a MBC could cause a rod bearing failure, but I was wrong according to mits.

Now I have to hire an expensive lawyer to get to what I paid for?

How many guys have to have the same thing happen before its considered a common problem.

Sorry about the rant guys, but this crap that mits dishes out is really S***ty.

 

so why are tuners raising the redline on flashes if the car cant handle them??

 

sorry about the damage, but can you post your mods before this happened?

 

Mods were intake/TBE/MBC/Dynoflash. intake was on for 2 weeks prior, flash & MBC were on for 10 days prior.

 

Did the flash raise the rev limit?

Is the flash still on that ECU?

 

Only those that look like they have come apart from overrevving.

 

Yes the rev limit is raised. Yes the flash is still on the ECU. And yes, Mitsubishi knows about it. No I do not hit the rev limiter for fun. Its there for a safety pre-caution, not a toy.

 

I skipped over this post earlier, this could be possible. I'm not too familiar with the balance shafts on the Evo, I come from hondas. Could the rod letting go on #1 cause the balance shaft to come out the tranny messing up the timing belt in the process?

 

Is it possible it happened before you even bought the car?

 

The balancer shaft is in the back of the block..

..Also to add on to my post earlier, once the intake valves became demolished (as in the pic below) the motor would not hold compression in 2 of the cylinders and most likely not run at all. Thus, the valves must have been demolished AFTER or DURING the final blow.

Cyl #4 head, rod/piston still attatched in cylinder


Cyl #3 head, rod/piston still attatched in cylinder


Cyl #2 head, rod snapped


Cyl #1 head, rod snapped, piston destroyed

 

Well thats always possible, I did get the car with 496 miles on it.. delivered from out of state.

 

Those 496 miles could have been a evos worst nightmare if you know what i mean (Brake in period - constant overrevving, launching and whatever else)

 

It's a possibility. I should really remove the other 6 conrod bolts and take measurements to see if they are stretched.

 

Are those BPR7ES's