The thing with new cars these days is that they're loaded with a whole bunch of other stuff/features/electronics etc. The more a car has loaded inside the more of a chance for something to break. Back then cars had barely anything inside and less of a chance to break. Just saying.
Yes that is crazy a catch can:eyebulge: Did you get a new short block or long block? here`s a pic of part# for short block, our noise was in the piston area with no oil contamination so it was a short block. They only install new engines because no rebuilds available yet for 2015 and up.Fresh engine build date 02/10/17
I was referring to fitment of the body panels and the quality of the paint etc, true they weren't making 435 hp but they didn't weight 4000 lbs either. As I remember it that 225 hp got the job done every time, I ran a stock 5.0 bottom end with a B303 cam, GT 40 heads, GT 40 intake, 10 psi & 150 shot never skipped a beat.
Just got off the phone. They said I had a piston go crazy which destroyed everything. They put a new long block in, I might be able to take it home today.
The job of the catch can is to prevent blow by oil from being sucked back through the intake manifold which lowers your octane rating and causes detonation. Back in 2000 the Lightning pick up had this issue, but it was supercharged so octane was very important being that your car was NA it's not as critical. If you don't have any plans to go forced induction I would leave it stock and retain your warranty of the new engine.
Ohhh but they do. There are so many parameters in a tune which if done incorrectly will destroy your engine. Plus a tune affects everything from the engine all the way through the rear end. So they can easily say that the extra power from the tune caused X part to fail as it wasn't rated for that...and they very well would be in the right with that.
While he's right in that you don't NEED it, doesn't mean that it won't help. The only way for a catch-can to do something like that was if the internal baffles or whatever broke off and a small piece of metal got sucked into a chamber. But you can easily look at the condition of the can itself to see if it's all there. Other than that, it just sounds like bad luck. Anything can happen at any time, I've seen catastrophic engine failures while idling. And my guess is that tech has not seen EVERY SINGLE broken 5.0 ever...so you can't base your entire knowledge of 5.0 reliability on one dude.
So much misinformation here it's laughable.
Can't imagine that it's affected (unlike an accident). A car with a new engine is not going to be worth less than one with an old engine. In fact, it may be for the better as it has lower miles. Like I said before, a fixed engine is not going to adversely affect the car drives unlike a salvaged car that has had frame and body damage.
