Engine 3 goes pop

[davyv]

Engine number 3 went last week.  It had done about 4000 miles of  weekend driving , no track or racing, it was a very well set up engine maintained and tuned by Pip. He  told me today that one of the spark plugs are corroded on the end so it’s had a bad connection with the lead and it has made  it chip a tip.
  The biggest regret I ever made was not putting a V8 in three years ago and getting rid of this F****** W*** setup.      
  Everything i put on the car is top quality and somthing as simple as this makes it pop, utter crap.

[steve garbutt]

Damn, i feel for you mate.
What direction you thinking of going ?
Popping a rotary back in ?

[davyv]

I  have spent about £5000 this year on a new turbo kit and other bits so i will put a rotary back in. If i hadn\'t spent that i would put a new v8 in , or just buy the one thats for sale at the mo and got a sledge hammer and knocked the f*** out of this car lol.

[bin liner]

who built the engines out of interest?

[Ed_RX7]

i have a jaydee big ported  ( one off ports) engine for sale...trick seals...special mods done to various other parts of the engine.

[davyv]

who built the engines out of interest?

Lindops did the rebuild but this has nothing to do with the them.

[DR SCHNITZEL]

"one of the spark plugs are corroded on the end so it’s had a bad connection with the lead and it has made it chip a tip"
 
I dont understand that^^^^ A new engine shouldnt go like that. if its tuned for safety.
 
Hmmph i really feel for you mate. i have had engine problems myself. been through 3 in as many years. My engine from Lindops lasted about 1000 miles.I tuned it super rich but ran 1.2 bar. Cant claim under the warranty as they didnt do the single tub work and i have torn the engine down now myself.
 
send the map to someone on here that maps to see if the map is ok. cos that is very strange.

[m1tch]

Surely new engine, new plugs? on the rebuild were parts re-used or brand new?

[gsb876]

i was thinking that, if the engine has been maintained properly that would include the proper plugs ??

[davyv]

The engine is about 18mths old and its done about 3500-4000 miles and i have had no problems with it. The plugs were replaced about 1000 miles ago when i had a single conversion and the leads were as new then so no need to replace them. I always tell Pip to replace whatever it needs so they were fine . The mapping was great 430BHP @ just under1 bar so quite safe there so no blame at all to anyone but me for not seeing the signs.

[DR SCHNITZEL]

I think ive heard enough.
 
You should get an independant opinion. surely a properly built and tuned engine should last a hell of alot longer than that if ancilliaries have not failed.
 
did you have new housings?

[BlitzBoy]

what fuel was you using Davyv?

[davyv]

Shell Blits, i always do.

[BlitzBoy]

might be worth getting all your injectors flow tested, more and more problems with poor flowing injectors due to their age will occur

[m1tch]

might be worth getting all your injectors flow tested, more and more problems with poor flowing injectors due to their age will occur

Can you run 430bhp on stock FD injectors then?