Ohmagoshbang!

[silver gts-t]

time for rb20det upgrade..

[d0p3y]

Who tuned it? Was it a new tune?

[ECR033]

Ouch, that looks nasty...good excuse for bigger and better though.

Good luck with the rebuild

Just out of curiosity, what size fuel injectors were you using (or if standard, did you have a fuel pressure reg?) and what sort of fuel pump did you have??

[Duncan]

more to the point did you say it happened coming into a corner? which gear were you going from and to?

and does the PFC store max revs?

[Morgs]

Damn alot of motors popping thesedays, best of luck with it all Mona!

(been there done that )

[benl1981]

Was the check engine going nuts and you just ploughed on...??

[Moanie]

Personally, I'd be going for an L16 and turbo, blowing through a decent sized carbie of some sort - 45mm Weber, Dellorto or SU, side-draught of course...

Ahhh, cable ties and gaffa/electrical tape - the drift/drag/circuit racer's and mechanic's best friend!

Seriously though, that is some heavy duty damage. Mona, you should keep the parts and display them somehow for memories. Ahhh, the good times!

yeah.. i'm planning on keeping some bits and pieces! maybe melt it all down and make some jewellery

Ryan - it was a new tune.. and i'd rather not say tuner

ECR033 - will PM you those details!

Duncan - was not even changing down gears when it happend... wasn't even into a corner... it was on the straight! came around the corner and into 4th.. saw a ping... backed off... then slowly accelerated again... to which her response was to ping like crazy.. now my car has ALWAYS pinged.. its been a never ending story of tuners and octane booster to get her running smoother.. i've always backed off and shes been fine. My biggest problem was i never had a hand controller so i didn't know how badly it was pinging.. i tried to get one, but apexi (for some crap reason) don't do backward compatible hand controllers... so i had nothing to go on

And PLEASE PEOPLE! I DO NOT ACCELERATE INTO THE REDLINE! SO STOP IMPLYING IT!

Thanks morgs! i can truely feel some of your pain now

Ben - no.. i am not fool enough to continue accelerating through pings :

[d0p3y]

It's OK Mona I found all the info out off an alternate source... all i can say is tsk tsk!

[Moanie]

tsk tsk about what?

[XCUZME]

that will buff right out! not.

thats bad moanie, but at least you went with a bang!

time for a new car?

[SECURITY]

me and mona got ours tuned at the same place... maybe theres a link there..........

[Moanie]

Hhahaha.. can't afford a evo, george!! though i'd love one!!!! this car is sending me broke

joe - don't think it was... i went to a new tuner cause i still had pinging issues!

[wilch]

mona, did it have a stock head gasket or a metal?

[Moanie]

you can't tell from the pic?

[2rismo]

Chalk me up for a Dead fuel pump vote.

[DJ984]

WOW! that's some quality work right there! sorry to hear it mate but as everyone's said... on to bigger and better things

i reckon you should get a tomei RB28DETT package shipped over from japlad lol! they're not THAT expensive

[fatz]

230 bux well spent (defi fuel pressure guage)

[d00dz]

Dammm...

Now u can go bigger and aim for that 500rwkw that u got on the uas dyno!

[wilch]

just checking....

what boost were you running?

[Liz]

*insert another million questions here*