stang17
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I can assure you that I had no intentions of playing Russian Roulette lol. After snapping the crank and destroying the entire stock motor while still owing a considerable amount of money on the car(my one and only car), I wanted to build and tune the car to be stronger than stock, thus why I invested in an aluminator and MFP crank support.All I can say is damn…
Hope everything ends up working for you. I’m curious as to why play “Russian Roulette” with a concoctions such as boostane & pump gas. It’s probable that you could have mixed it wrong, but I hope not.
Do you still have your original motor? This could’ve been backup/spare
Prior to using PBD, I had always ran octane booster as a safe guard against the possibility of getting a tank of bad gas, not primarily for any increased power output.
Before I even loaded the very first PBD tune I had emailed PBD my data logs from the pulls I made while on the whipple tune where I was seeing upwards of 19.5 timing without any significant knock and guardian wanting to add 1-2 more timing.
I had specifically asked for a safe 93 octane tune to use year round and asked if they can offer something that would still be be reliable at the track when using 96 octane. Rob even hooked me up with several different versions of the 96 tune that had alternate levels of power for 1st gear to help me with my 60 ft since I no longer had the flight control settings of whipple tune.
I always made sure to keep the boostane stored properly and to make sure none of the bottles were expired.
Ok maybe I was given too much timing, but the car wasn't showing any knock after the 1st series of revisions. Im assuming that's why they felt comfortable giving me as much timing as they did. I wouldn't think they would ever turn off the knock sensors and I'm sure they didn't. I belive the just desensitized them slightly by 10%, but maybe that was just enough.
Its certainly possible the head gasket failed at the power level I was at and which overtime landed itself to the problems with the rings, etc.
I have my nguage set to monitor knock with the warning lights. So how else was I supposed to know something going wrong if I wasn't seeing any knock.
Regardless, just wanted to post up here as I have been transparent with my car build and experience since day 1. I'm hoping my experience with running octane booster and the amount of timing I was serves as a warning for the next guy.
This forum is a source for info and data; not a place to bitch or drag someone's name through the dirt.
I still plan on working with PBD as they have always been quick to respond to any questions I had and would reccomend them to anyone looking for a custom tune ( maybe not octane booster though)
I'm just looking forward and concentrating on the positives. The engine is salvageable and hopefully won't cost me more than 2-3 grand to be built even stronger with ARP studs and cometic gaskets, by a very well established builder, Holbrook Racing engines.
My wife hasn't murdered me or filed for divorce.
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