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I would not think no matter what type of tune you have over 300 rwkw's low down or up high the rods are on there limits well before 300 anyway so you are living on borrowed time.

I blow mine at 305 rwkw's with very conservitive tune that is power produced higher than most and it still bent rods.

My best mate bent 2 rods at 270 rwkw's with an even milder tune so go figure.

300 is the upper limit for any sort of long term usage.

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blueboost ran over 200 1/4mile passes including the 10sec pass and never bent a rod, and that was in a BA! with stock internals... prob up around 350rwkw, he didnt have a dyno at the time...

The big thing is to always run good fuel and have safe tunes where temp vs timing and borderline knock tables have been done correctly with plenty of timing the ECU can pull out if it hears a ping... mind you, if the knock sensor isnt working then that could cause a problem in detecting then preventing it... from what ive heard, the knock sensors sensitivity varies alot too and I think they are better in the BF.

for example, the knock sensor in my car hears the slight knocking before the human ear can we have found, and then it can pull out up to 4 degrees depending on how much knock it heard... but on some other cars, the human ear could hear the pinging before the knock sensor could react which is really too late and you should get a new/better knock sensor or risk your engine...

somtimes people get bad fuel too, and this is what I worry most about... for example on my old generic tune, my car used to ping on shell vpower 98 but not on bp98... so I NEVER run shell anymore as I know its inferior in some way...

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the knock sensor can only pull a set amount of timing out at a time. This can be changed within the edit software. My ute has knock control problems, it's pulls as much timing out as it can over time without any pinging. After alot of screwing around we turned it off and made sure the tune has a good safety margin in it.

I've done 60,000km of a total 116,000km with mods and so far I've had no engine dramas. One day the engine will let go. The stress it's put under over time will eventually win and something will break.

As for engine failures there are alot that don't make it to the forum. I know of one very recent turbo Territory that melted a piston after being tuned.

As far as this thread is concerned...

I think it's a good idea to share experiences. I never have understood why people hide details about things. But, can we please not turn this into a tuner bashing thread? If somethings happened then by all means post it up but leave the tuners names out of it. All tuners will have customers with both good and bad experiences. There's no need to rubbish someones name from one or two bad accounts.

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I bet if you made a thread about how many pre BF cars that are running 300+ with stock bottom end and no dramas there would be a heaps of us.

I run 300 rwkw stock bottom end stock auto, and I drive my car hard all day every day, jusy ask any one who comes cruzing with me :spoton:

and she is fine.

It all comes down to the tune, and really just bad luck if it go's.

My 2 cents, every car is different.

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  Adam said:
As for engine failures there are alot that don't make it to the forum. I know of one very recent turbo Territory that melted a piston after being tuned.

Cheers :spoton:

So that's why we havn't heard from T000G0 for a while :spoton:

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So that's why we havn't heard from T000G0 for a while :spoton:

No. This one is in Victoria.

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perhaps we should start a thread to see how many ppl are running 300+rwkw on ba engines and for how long..

seems to be unfortunate maintenance things of late that we have heard about, ie spark plugs

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