Is anyone replying for S&R looking at the pics? Just look at the plugs. There was so much heat and detonation from the load of the dyno that the electrodes were blown completely off.
This car was running PERFECTLY before it went onto the rollers. There was no tuning being done to the car. The cars tune has nothing to do with the reason that it blew up.
Originally Posted by
knightwolf2020
Now that S&R has posted I wanted to tell what I witnessed on the day that Jerry blew his car. To start if Jerry felt that the Dyno was puting to much load on the car then he should not have got on it, second he was the one behind the wheel he saw the A/F was lean yet he stayed in it. We do work to our cars and we have to take responsability on what happens, to blame others is just Bullcrap. I am always at the shop and I have yet to see Jerry try to talk to Bobby or Jim in order the fix or get a good understanding of the facts. All I see here is the blame game being played by someone who had a mishap on the dyno. To start to bad talking a shop just starting out is LOW and will not benefit either party. Aslo Jerry you spoke with me after your mishap and you said " this was the same spot it blow before". I then asked you if you had the head milled before rebuild and you stated " No it looked good" and replyed you can't just look at it you have to properly measure and mill the surface. Stop and think before you do work on your car and then take count on what you tell others before you try to make yourslf some kind of victom, becouse it all comes back on you. Be a man and talk to them and stop the bullcrap posts with out trying to resolve this.
If you would just look at the pics before making yourself sound dumb, it would answer all the questions in the world. The headgasket that was in question before this motor blew up barely had a crack in the gasket. The car was running perfectly even with a slightly blown headgasket. It certainly didnt blow to the point where it needed to be milled. The head surface was flat and was prepared correctly to be put on the current motor *which is now blown*.
The S&R crew should have known from the get-go that there was too much load on the dyno. If they went to the dyno manufacturer to understand how a dyno works, they would have known that under load, the full dyno pass should only take 4-5seconds tops, not 13seconds in the case of the evo. This also need to be into consideration that this 13second pull was from 3000-5200rpms. This wasnt even a full dyno pass. This was half the rpms the car normally sees.
To bring up the load again, why in the hell would a 147whp car blow up on the dyno? What would cause a bone stock suburu wagon to blow up? I just dont understand why you guys can't just open your eyes for one second to take a look at the possibilities. You had to turn the load setting off the dyno to do your dyno day. Why is that? Why didnt you just leave the load settings the way they were if they had nothing to do with the cars blowing up? The simple answer to that question is because you have no clue how to operate the dyno. Mark himself did not want anything to do with this dyno on the load settings because he himself knew you guys didnt know what you were doing. These are the facts and I think you should sit down amongst yourselves as a shop to contimplate how you plan to fix situations like this, because this is just the start.
Take my word for it. The shop you guys have is kick ass, but if no one there has any clue on how to do things properly, it wont be successful. All it takes is word of mouth to make a shop or break a shop. I want to see you all make it, but just remember this. It will only be as successful as you make it. Good luck on your journey and hopefully, you guys can fix this disaster.