damn man that sucks. especially on a car so new... I would be freaking pissed as well.

Good luck with the car.

 

yea man idk what happened... I hoping its a factory defect and they will cover it.... at least that way wont have to pay for shortblock but pay for upgraded parts idk the wife is in a whole different mindset with this... shes driving me nuts too

 

Okay, wow so you had less than 6K on the car and it blew up on you? I don't know what I would be doing in this situation. Its a story like this that makes me not want to touch my car until the warranty is up. I have a 15 GSR and I want to do modifications but looking at the warranty book it seems they can deny for modifications even though they try and sell you aftermarket Mitsu parts in a dealer packet after you purchase. I think you are dreaming if a dealership is going to warranty your engine or upgrade after what you have done to the car. They cant warranty someone else's tune or driving style.


Your best bet if you have the money is to get a new block built and go the route you are going. I can completely understand the wife thing, she is looking at it as you put all that crap on a perfectly good car and its your fault type thing. Its not your daily driver so you have that on your side, but it sucks what happened. Thanks for posting as this is keeping me in the mindset of I am not touching this car for a long time mod wise.

 

Sounds like you simply got a bad one. Hard to believe its the tune if it was running fine for a few months. Cold temps won't suddenly make it blow up. They'll actually help improve a tune if it has a little knock by cooling the charge temp, and the MAF sensor will sense the extra air density and the engine will get get the needed extra fuel.

All of these guys concerned about boost at rpm's are wrong, especially on the mild pump gas setup you were running. The other guy saying it blew up because you lifted and left it in gear is extra wrong.

To get bad enough detonation to blow it up like this you would have felt the car not pulling smoothly. And if coolant temp is up to normal, oil is going to be well over 125*+, which won't really hurt anything.

If you took it to a mitsu dealer with all the parts and tune on it, they will deny you warranty coverage. Even if what failed was defective, it's very easy for them to argue that the defect would have handled stock power levels. You increased whp by over 50%, so its on you. Unfortunately its the risk you take when modifying vehicles..

 

Its worth asking if they may cover it honostly whats the worst they can say no.. o well then no harm no foul at that point. Who knows maybe they will agree to cover half of it then, bottom line you cant get something you dont at least ask for.

 

thanks guys.... I appreciate the support... yea its deff my summer car and where I live it was a nice day this past sat like around 38 and was fine for that 10-15 min drive.... im not sure but its driving me nuts cause I want them to look and inspect and let me know what, how, and why... its almost like u lost ur best friend...

 

This had me lol.ing.

Reason i know is because it happended to my car chief. It is a known occurrence in the world of tuning. In case you havent noticed people have blown their engines off of seeming mild tunes so to say this is just ignorant.

 

so what route did u end up taking.... seems like I have a lot of options but probably all going to cost money...

 

ive been thinking and not sure just fix and sell and cut my losses or make it a badass machine... I have no idea

 

i dont see why you would sell it..sounds like you would most likely loose even more money seeing as how the car is so new..

 

I was lucky to have no major failure like this, but I was expecting it and gave up on warranty first time I decided to modify the car. Sorry man, but sometime you gotta pay to play.
If you decide to rebuild, go with a good ECU tuner and skip over piggybacks. Good luck!

 

That's what was done the first time... there was no piggy backs... a straight up tune from accessport and then he fine tuned that... so it was legit...

 

I am curious if u have the tune that was in place when the big bang happened? I would like to see the high gear target boost maps (boost offset as well) , high octane and low octane timing and fuel maps.. We may be able too tell if it was too much boost, timing, or too lean. Was the knock light enabled? Was it flashing during this romp? Since it was a tweaked Cobb map it is not proprietary and u should have ownership to post this information unless u signed something that the tweaks to the Cobb map are proprietary. I doubt it. Also u didn't list injectors. If that's true that ur running stock injectors then that was it. U went lean.

 

I cant open the map that he tuned on my pc and I have all the cobb stuff.... I just don't have the pro access tuner that u need to modify to tune.... yea he did 94.5 or 96.4 % on stock injectors... said it was as good as its gona get unless I went with 1000cc.. but he said that the car would be fine running like that..

 

There u have it then. 96.4% of stock injectors at ambient temp means u ran out of fuel (injector wise) when u took it out in the winter cold. U went lean and it went boom. 96.4% is already 16% higher than u should be operating when it was "tuned". I am shocked that with ur mods a tuner would send u out the door on stock injectors. Crazy. That is what happened, I bet my left one.