While traveling from Norfolk, VA to Johns-town, PA for a funeral (of all things) Jesse had a very unfortunate, catastrophic engine failure. To make matters even worse, he was now stranded on the side of RT 70 (middle of no where) about 2 hours away from his hotel and family. With that said, he was obviously in quite the predicament.... being several hours from home....not knowing any good shops in the area.....and most importantly, who's towing the car! Now this is where I come in.

While sitting on the side of Rt 70, Jesse had no clue what to do, or who to call. So he made a desperate call to me in hopes I could point him in the right direction. My heart immediately went out to him, since I to have been the victim of a blown motor and know how devastating it came be. Not to mention, adding a funeral to the mix made it that much more depressing.

I immediately went into "logistics mode" called my good friend JJ (the owner of IAG Performance) and informed him of the situation. It didn't matter that it was after hours, and the shop was totally closed..... Between IAG, and SSP, we had a tow truck on the way within the hour, and figured out all the logistics to make sure his car would be safe and secure until it arrived at IAG in the morning.

So first thing this morning, I took the trip out to IAG Performance to see the damage first hand. Now since it was pitch black out when his motor blew, he wasn't exactly sure "how bad" things were. Well, as much as it pains me to say this......His engine is totally destroyed! Oil and metal chunks all over the place. Here's some of the pictures I took of the carnage.

 

sorry to hear. i hope i never have to go through something like this. although it would be an excuse to put a built motor in the car...

 

Thats what happens on 30+psi on an FPred, I would know.

Seems like all the people pushing their cars limits are finally starting to see their motors letting go.

Sucks, hopefully he gets it all fixed up!

 

crap....

hopefully it gets sorted with least amount of $$$'s spent :|

 

I hope I'm not jinx'ng myself or others, but I think we have yet to see a motor blow due to power on a green / bbx-lite right?

 

Hey I know that guy!

You're in good hands between Jeremy/JJ and the IAG crew...

 

Proper carnage! GL with the build

 

I dont want to contribute to flooding his pm's so I'll just ask here in case anyone knows:

how much hp/tq?
meth?
revving how high?

Just curious as I really do not want to endure this lol.

 

according to his post on evoxforums he wasn't even really boosting at the time...

yes he runs meth, but if he wasn't boosting much then meth probably wasn't running...

 

Our other sponsored X (MR) was running a green on E-85 and blew his the same way...and actually on the same part of rd....

 

great...

so thats about 5 motors now?

hrmm I'm super tempted to drop ins on mine... b4 the inevitable...

 

Yeah but haven't they all been running E-85?

 

E85 or Meth...and Tephra runs Meth

I would do drop ins if I were you Tephra with the low end torque of the stocker. So much cheaper to do it without having to buy a new block.

 

yes its very very tempting..

I have more than 20kkms - so I think I would need block machined etc..

so more cost...

 

Yes you would but it would be worth it I think...just saying