damn that sucks man.

 

****** deal man.. Good luck with the rebuild though..

 

that's bad i wouldn't be ready to rebuild if that would happen to me now.. but my car isn't driving too, anyways..

 

I know when I plan on going F/I, I plan on using Ripps Pistons 9.5:1 compression ratio(possibly getting a custom lower compression set done) and having Pauter make some custom rods for me... if you're looking to build out an engine thats what i would recommend... But I'm no F/I pro, might wanna talk to one of them...

 

Ouch! Thats not good.

 

Holy crap dude,
Your compression is all over the map. what the heck happened there?
Did your rings go out on you? did you warp the head??
Cyl # 2 seems to be the only one that held up to that abuse. I would seriously look into your tune and such. You should have had no problem with 10 psi with a FMIC and the correct tune. did you ever get your piggyback reflashed from alpine for the FMIC and 10 psi??

 

Ouch dude thats aweful, seems all ive read today is about engines blowing up or **** going wrong. Not a good time lately for anyone. Good luck with your plans and keep us updated bro!

 

Did you ever figgure out what happened? My money's on piston rings. let me know cuz im pretty curious.....

 

Pretty sure its the rings...i'm shopping for a set of forged pistons now and hopefully I cna get back on the road in about a month.

 

That's totally bunk duder!!!!!
I was at the dealership yesterday and i was gonna stop in to say hi but i was in a mad savage rush to get home. Hopefully with the lower compression piston's you wont have this issue twice!!!!!!!
If your deffinatly going forged...check this article out.
http://www.theoldone.com/articles/engine_tips/enginebuildingtippistons1.html

 

It doesn't matter what you build now, nothing will survive the abuse your tune is giving. You need to figure out what the problem is before you go and dump more money into another motor, which will blow too.

I've been running 15psi on a completely stock motor for a year now. 10psi was nothing.

Usually if all the cylinders have low compression like that, then there was something seriously wrong. If it was mild, then only one piston/ring would go out at a time.

 

Perhaps a reflashed ECU from korea may be in order? along with some phat injector's and a new fuel pump?

 

seems like a bad tune caused this I can't believe a beta will blow up at under 10 psi.

 

Well its unfortunate that i didnt have my wideband installed at the time but I will be getting a reflash for the unichip aswell as installing 290 cc injectors on the new setup and the wideband will be installed forsure.

 

Update: its definately the rings we did a test on one of the cylinders:

1. Normal compression test : 98 psi
2. Poured 1 tsp of oil in cylinder then did cimpression test: 200 psi

Rebuild starts next weekend. I'll be getting the CP Forged Pistons from Tom @ Boostology.

 

I bet you it's not the rings. Take it apart and you will find that it's the ringlands. The pistons are cracked near the intake side. It's typical.

 

Ouch sorry to hear that.....

 

**** man. how long the rebuild gonna take?
your car at the sherwood dealer?

 

ill be limping the car down to the dealership on saturday. Unfortunately the guy whos doing the work for me is busy with school so he can only work on it on weekends. So hopefully it will be finished by May 5 if we can get all the parts on time.

 

I seem to remember warning you against turning up the boost on the Entry Level Kit without a wideband to monitor things. The original Entry Level Unichip tune was only good for a max of 9psi. I also seem to remember telling you quite a few times that I would reflash your chip for free. No matter what form of tuning you have you MUST ALWAYS keep tabs on your engine. I myself am currently running 15psi on a GT2876R turbo and pushing close to 340WTQ/360WHP on the stock decompressed block with zero problems.
In the future you may want to think about upgrading to the SMT-6 Tuner package so that any local shop can do the tune for you. In the meantime send me you chip and I'll reflash it for the the 290cc intercooled program.

 

Dude,
That's like saying "HA HA I TOLD YOU SO" and then poking him in the eye as his lifeless body lies wrapped around a pole.

 

ouch.....powned,

chris your car gonna be out for this weekend meet?

 

Dave, I am 120% sure that you told me the unichip tune was good for up to 12 psi with the addition of the intercooler. Please do not try to make it sound like I pushed the kit over its limits because I did not. I could make a big deal about this and dig up the old email telling me that the tune was good for 12 psi but im not going to. Theres just no point. Im not trying to blame Alpine for any of this. I love the kit and have had tons of fun with it. I have had good relations with You and Alpine and I would like it to stay that way. So lets just focus on the future and we can make sure this doesnt happen again and in the process make some nice numbers.

 

i do think the flashes are almost identical if not identical at all. i mean it's just the map that continues up to the MAP sensor abilities, it could be different for stock and decompressed... but why this "up to" question is brought? does it just stop injecting at 9.1psi or what?