I'm talking in respect to the amount of overall vehicle damage. Let's say you have a steel core support and are involved in a front-end collision- you damage your radiator, condenser, etc. With a plastic core support, however, I can see many more parts being damaged.
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No they won't think about it, he was driving "normal" when the car died. If he said he was booting 'er aka riding the redline, then you could get away with blaming the tune. Companies wouldn't want to release such an agressive tune as they woudl never get any business.
Plus we all like Turbokits and I am positive they wouldn't whore their tuning out to amateurs that are just going to blow up the customer's vehicles.
It was worn/stressed parts, the sooner we realize this the sooner we can move on. If someone would like to strap a 150shot bomb on your car and actually monitor the AFR you'll see it. His car was never tuned to run that much extra air.
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I agree. And dont say, "I haven't been run nos for a while." The thing is you did it and that had to stress the parts. Then, you did the tune and probably stressed it more. But props man, you're helping us all understand what the car can take. Good luck with you're build.
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OK lets get this cleared up I did not use 150 shot after the ecu has been flash. I thought about what I did before it happen and I changed to 2nd gear too quick at low rpms. Before the stop sign. Now sit and think if you advance your timing and you bang gears on low rpm. Were your car bogs there's a chance that your piston hit a valve because there's more pressure makes sense guys remember this! So advancing your timing is not a good thing yes nitrous weakened it. But the flash finish the job. When I shifted to early. And I never done that ever I was just to busy arguing on the phone. Update more pics are up I will take a video when head is coming off I stripped a12 point star screw which holds the head (last screw that needed to be taken out) I mistakenly used a 6 point start... so I have to drill a hole and get a screw extractor after that mess I will do a video now since I'm mobile it will be a really long video which means I have to upload to PC and I don't have one so bare with me.
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cool story bro
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Most new vehicles are designed to save the passenger by sacrificing the car, crumpling all parts before the passenger compartment to absorb the impact. If they went old school and used steel again then they put the passengers back to more risk. I would rather trash my car in a bad accident and survive, then have insurance or warranty repair it or replace it.
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check your piston's too...odds are if the valve hit it you have some dings on them and they'll have to be replaced.
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same thing I was about to say: most new cars are unibody construction, which is designed to crumple on impact, as opposed to the older style frames that would transmit the jar of the impact through the entire car..
the force from the crash is weakened through the front end of the car as it crushes it, so you are actually safer inside the car than you would be in an older style. This would be why most new cars are totaled when in a collision..
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Update can't take out this one head bolt. Used and extractor and it bent the tool. No luck on my side I did record a video of the removel off the bumper,stripped bolt and all around. I'm learning in the process that's what motivates me. P.s. thanks mods and admins.
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That bolt is probably not going to come out easily... I had a bolt break on me before on one of the heads of my old 94 T-bird (the bolt for a thermostat housing on the head, not an actual headbolt) .... tried to remove it, it was rock solid, couldn't even make the hole to extract it. Took the head to a machine shop and had them deal with it...
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