Winter claims another L...

[NewKid]

Sorry to hear this Jeff. PSI would be a good place (of course) but i heard they've been pretty backed up lately.

Thanks Chris. Ha, PSI has been backed up for the last couple of years.

 

[Callaway Cobra]

Man that sucks.. I hope you get it back going soon..

 

[svtboosting]

sucks but i was expecting a crash thread. it could have been much worse judging from what has been happening on this site lately.

Thats what i thought too, it sucks man, i sold mine and the guy blew it up 2 miles down the road right after he bought it from me, he threw a rod though

 

[Paulinator]

Yeah its called the rods. All rods in 99-04 L's are cast.

What probably happened was the dense cold air cause his maf to peg out which cause a lean condition and caused some detonation. That caused the rod to say **** this and fail. Its a very common occurrence in the winter time for stock internal blocks.

Oh and generally winter tunes have less timing and more gas added into them to compensate for cold air and shit winter gas.

im going to blame his tuner for running to drastic of a tune on it..

ive been running on a summer tune on a 4.6L with 183,000 miles original long block. 10lbs of boost making 404rwhp.. for going on 2 years with no problems with lean or rich a/f conditions between summer and winter.. either he didnt hear the detonation and didnt get out or his tuner didnt do a safe tune on it.

 

[Paulinator]

Thanks Chris. Ha, PSI has been backed up for the last couple of years.

talk to Neil at The Car Shop in temple, TX
Automotive Repairs and Performance | The Car Shop

he tunes mine and hes been a friend of the family for over 20 years. he is the only one i trust to tune or work on my truck when im not around.

 

[Smokinjoe]

Thats what i thought too, it sucks man, i sold mine and the guy blew it up 2 miles down the road right after he bought it from me, he threw a rod though

471whp on the stock block? No wonder it blew up. Sucks to be the guy you sold it too, lol.

When I sold my '93 SHO the buyer lost the automatic transmission on the way home. I felt really bad. But not bad enough to give him his money back. ;-)