So let me give yall some background here. I have a build thread for my corvette. Corvette is still at the shop. I traded my mach-e in for a subaru wrx that was owned by one of my customers previously (They had an old stage-x tune for their focus st). Well they eventually traded their focus st for a 2020 wrx.
The wrx is fully bolted with flex fuel and was on e60 fuel tuned by phatbotti. I purchased the car Saturday and after 4 pulls the motor let go. My intuition here is that the person who traded the car didn't have any idea and probably didn't do pulls on it. I like to drive my cars and do pulls.
The car was making 380whp and a spun rod bearing is common on these cars for that power level, there was no knock feedback until the rod spun meaning the tune was not the cause I just mentioned the tuner because they are actually a reputable wrx tuner from what I've read.
Unfortunately this was my daily so now I'm driving my 2 motorcycles
I will be ordering a stage 2 IAG shortblock and having my old turbo vendor that built our focus st hybrid turbos rebuild the turbo into a hybrid turbo.
I will be re-tuning the car myself with ecutek to keep flex fuel functionality.
and so it begins......
Picture captured while waiting on a flat bed as I pulled over after hearing loud clacking at 3-4k rpm to minimize damage.
The wrx is fully bolted with flex fuel and was on e60 fuel tuned by phatbotti. I purchased the car Saturday and after 4 pulls the motor let go. My intuition here is that the person who traded the car didn't have any idea and probably didn't do pulls on it. I like to drive my cars and do pulls.
The car was making 380whp and a spun rod bearing is common on these cars for that power level, there was no knock feedback until the rod spun meaning the tune was not the cause I just mentioned the tuner because they are actually a reputable wrx tuner from what I've read.
Unfortunately this was my daily so now I'm driving my 2 motorcycles
I will be ordering a stage 2 IAG shortblock and having my old turbo vendor that built our focus st hybrid turbos rebuild the turbo into a hybrid turbo.
I will be re-tuning the car myself with ecutek to keep flex fuel functionality.
and so it begins......
Picture captured while waiting on a flat bed as I pulled over after hearing loud clacking at 3-4k rpm to minimize damage.