What would you do if a shop did this to your car?
It was in a local shop for body work...... I spoke to the my insurance today as it was there getting repaired threw them. They told me that the shop should have Garage Keeper legal liability Insurance. He said get there Insurance info and my Insurance guy would file a claim threw them to get it repaired. And yes its getting towed to AMS 2.3rr here I come.
A valve head broke off into the cyl or the top of the piston came apart big time. That is big time physical damage to the plug. The head and cylinder bore are going to be in very bad shape, possibly unrepairable.
Its unusual for a valve to break just from hitting the rev limiter, even when cold (you could most likely fire a stock motored evo up dead cold, and hold it against the rev limiter for 5 miles in 1st gear and it wont break a damn thing). This is almost always a result from a physical overrev (where you force the RPMS higher than the limiter by shifting into a lower gear at too high of an rpm) or skipped timing belt.
The whole story sounds fishy. Its very unusual for a throttle to get stuck. If it does, you can almost always find evidence of it by looking at the throttle body and cable and see if they are catching on anything near.
Its unusual for a valve to break just from hitting the rev limiter, even when cold (you could most likely fire a stock motored evo up dead cold, and hold it against the rev limiter for 5 miles in 1st gear and it wont break a damn thing). This is almost always a result from a physical overrev (where you force the RPMS higher than the limiter by shifting into a lower gear at too high of an rpm) or skipped timing belt.
The whole story sounds fishy. Its very unusual for a throttle to get stuck. If it does, you can almost always find evidence of it by looking at the throttle body and cable and see if they are catching on anything near.
A valve head broke off into the cyl or the top of the piston came apart big time. That is big time physical damage to the plug. The head and cylinder bore are going to be in very bad shape, possibly unrepairable.
Its unusual for a valve to break just from hitting the rev limiter, even when cold (you could most likely fire a stock motored evo up dead cold, and hold it against the rev limiter for 5 miles in 1st gear and it wont break a damn thing). This is almost always a result from a physical overrev (where you force the RPMS higher than the limiter by shifting into a lower gear at too high of an rpm) or skipped timing belt.
The whole story sounds fishy. Its very unusual for a throttle to get stuck. If it does, you can almost always find evidence of it by looking at the throttle body and cable and see if they are catching on anything near.
Its unusual for a valve to break just from hitting the rev limiter, even when cold (you could most likely fire a stock motored evo up dead cold, and hold it against the rev limiter for 5 miles in 1st gear and it wont break a damn thing). This is almost always a result from a physical overrev (where you force the RPMS higher than the limiter by shifting into a lower gear at too high of an rpm) or skipped timing belt.
The whole story sounds fishy. Its very unusual for a throttle to get stuck. If it does, you can almost always find evidence of it by looking at the throttle body and cable and see if they are catching on anything near.
I dont know myself what actaully happened eiather. What I do know is the car was just tuned by you guys not long ago and it was perfectly fine when I droped it off. As it was in there posession for a month.....and after reciveing it back it sounded different and idled different. So after driving it about 20 miles to my place it had stalled twice. And the pictures are the evidence of what I found after the car died on me.
I accidentally started my old motor that built with the throttle wide open (as I do for boost leak ). I forgot to return the throttle to closed for the first start of the motor. Unfortunately the first 20 seconds of its life was smacking a 9500 RPM rev limiter. It did absolutly NO damage to the plugs and actually was an EXTREMELY fast motor.
Your not being told the whole truth. You have mechanical damage going on by viewing the plugs. I've never in my life seen a plug that bad.
Your not being told the whole truth. You have mechanical damage going on by viewing the plugs. I've never in my life seen a plug that bad.
Tephra patch with Valet mode FTW. If I ever take my car into a shop Ill just get in ECU flash and set the rev limiter to 2200.
Sorry to hear about those guys beating on you car...cause thats what they were doing...Joy ride, .ect...good luck and best wishes. I hate to see my fellow Evo owners go through stuff like this.
Sorry to hear about those guys beating on you car...cause thats what they were doing...Joy ride, .ect...good luck and best wishes. I hate to see my fellow Evo owners go through stuff like this.
I accidentally started my old motor that built with the throttle wide open (as I do for boost leak ). I forgot to return the throttle to closed for the first start of the motor. Unfortunately the first 20 seconds of its life was smacking a 9500 RPM rev limiter. It did absolutly NO damage to the plugs and actually was an EXTREMELY fast motor.
Your not being told the whole truth. You have mechanical damage going on by viewing the plugs. I've never in my life seen a plug that bad.
Your not being told the whole truth. You have mechanical damage going on by viewing the plugs. I've never in my life seen a plug that bad.
You should coin that as a new "break in" technique!
