Dang, man; good thing you built. It looks like a windowed block was just a matter of time with that rod. Did you have any symptoms like the characteristic pulsing clutch as you depressed the pedal to let you know your rod was bent?Cylinder #1 went. Aside from this, the rest is fine. Ringlands are all fine, crank is fine, rod journals are fine. Even the cylinder walls are "fine", but with 111K on the odometer she`s getting the 88mm treatment regardless.
Just a high wtq pull? Were you flooring it in 6th or something?
Do you have a 4 bar map sensor? I remember when I hooked up my wastegate wrong it boosted to the sky, pegged at like 28.5 psi or something, but likely much higher. Car drove fine for a good while afterwards. Builder said that all of my rod bearings were tore up, and my exhaust valves were cooked.
Probably ~ 440 or so. The rule of thumb is general 10/10 @ the wheels per psi. Do you have a 3-BAR MAP or 3.5 BAR? The reason I ask is if it's only a 3-BAR, you could've pegged it and actually hit much higher boost than it can read. For all you know, you could've hit 35psi or even more.
Yep. I figure I'll probably go the same way for the same reasons. Plus, they aren't as expensive. Pretty sure they're bolts, right?
True that. But I do think that may be why they don't need retorqued--bolts vs. studs/nuts--but I could be wrong.
That sounds like the exact same thing that happened to my car, hit 33 psi in a split second. At least you already had plans to build. Looking forward to seeing the results man
Just FYI, my S3 on my old Turbosmart would drop to 17psi when the GA activated. The Synapse should drop lower (larger venting hole), but I've not overboosted once, so I'm really not sure.
That's what I'm going to do: connect the AEM AFR failsafe to the GA failsafe trigger. I'll be setting initial methanol flow and max methanol flow at 1/2 of max boost and 3/4 of max boost, respectively, regardless of pressure level GA drops to. Then I'll fine-tune based on feel, telemetry, and input from my tuner.
