I got my car back today! (G-power fixed it)

gthirtyfizle · 10-27-2009, 04:17 PM

Dis tightie ever have any problems with his GPOWER?

Lemans_Blue_M · 10-27-2009, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by gthirtyfizle

Dis tightie ever have any problems with his GPOWER?

Well, he did...past tense.

His motor blew on the dyno a few months ago.

powertrip · 10-27-2009, 04:49 PM

Cracking ringlands causes a loss of compression which falls under a "blown" engine. Fortunately for you it just wasn't a catastrophic failure.

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Originally Posted by tightie

My motor didn't blow, the car was still running just not properly. My motor has been taken apart and getting the correct parts installed.

There was nothing wrong with the supercharger system, G-power put the wrong software onto the ECU which made the pistons go bad.

gthirtyfizle · 10-27-2009, 05:00 PM

Damn, Its so sick that no one ever mentioned anything about the Gpower superchargers and blown motors until yesterday, and thats cause a member mentioned something. Meanwhile every kit out there had issues. Looks like everyone was keeping their mouths shut. Either way, Im glad they figured out the issues and taking care of all their customers. However it must suck to have almost all their kits fail.

JMD0977 · 10-27-2009, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by gthirtyfizle

Damn, Its so sick that no one ever mentioned anything about the Gpower superchargers and blown motors until yesterday, and thats cause a member mentioned something. Meanwhile every kit out there had issues. Looks like everyone was keeping their mouths shut. Either way, Im glad they figured out the issues and taking care of all their customers. However it must suck to have almost all their kits fail.

Much of it got disscussed in this thread almaost 2 months ago: http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296696

The first issues were known to a very few MONTHS before that.

At the end, it seems G-Power did the right thing and took care of them.

powertrip · 10-27-2009, 05:45 PM

Did you use OEM pistons on your rebuild, or aftermarket? Any comments on whether or not the OEM pistons really are forged?

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Originally Posted by tightie

Didn't know that falls under the "blown" category, if so then my motor did blow.

There was a thread about it a month ago, a few pages long...

datbimmerdoe · 10-28-2009, 01:04 AM

Glad to hear the car is back on point.

JCtx · 10-28-2009, 07:42 PM

Damn, I didn't know of the blown motors either. Seems like every GPower car blew its motor. What an expensive mistake not to properly test their kits, especially with so few sales and such an expensive motor.

And the S65 it's not a weak motor by itself, but it's nearly maxed out from the factory (for street use, with the expected reliability and durability), so definitely weak if blown, no?

edcvin · 10-28-2009, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by elp_jc

Damn, I didn't know of the blown motors either. Seems like every GPower car blew its motor. What an expensive mistake not to properly test their kits, especially with so few sales and such an expensive motor.

And the S65 it's not a weak motor by itself, but it's nearly maxed out from the factory (for street use, with the expected reliability and durability), so definitely weak if blown, no?

Is this the truth about this motor? Does it have to be built to handle more power?

OP - Happy to hear you have your vehicle back.

-Vin

Jonmartin · 10-28-2009, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by vinnycg

Is this the truth about this motor? Does it have to be built to handle more power?

OP - Happy to hear you have your vehicle back.

-Vin

NOPE unless you're going over a certain boost level.

Kyosho · 10-29-2009, 01:30 AM

That is awesome customer service for you there.
I use to have a Twin Turbo G35 coupe, the people who installed it didnt wrap the wastegate line that ran to the wastegates, and it touched the exhausts and it melted. Right then, my boost gauge showed 25+ PSI and BAM bye bye engine. The shop who installed it did not want to take responsibility for their crappy work. Horrible experience.
Im glad AutoTalent and Gpower did a good job

Jonmartin · 10-29-2009, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by PencilGeek

Where did the new block come from?

didn't need one.

Lemans_Blue_M · 10-29-2009, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonmartin

didn't need one.

Your engine IS a stroker (technically speaking) ...think about it for a minute...

10M3MAN · 10-29-2009, 07:15 AM

Cool, good to know everything went smoothly

Checkcaptain · 10-29-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonmartin

LOL thanks but its not a stroker.

No

G-Power will cover motors that had kits installed by their Authorized Dealers only. I didn't have a wideband installed I knew I shoud have though.Its not really the a/f that was bad it was due to detonation too much timing.

Thanks, I will be N/A with all my old stuff for a lil while until we figure out what to do next.

YUP +1 it will be better soon. I plan on bettering those numbers with the new file.

As I said before too much timing caused detonation and you're right the best engine in the world with the strongest shit with blow with the wrong file. The S65 isn't a weak motor period.

I have no idea about the other supposed blown cars all I know about is my car and another local car so I can't comment on those.

To everyone else thanks for the comments.

So you were lucky - one major blow in Germany left about 5 quarts of Castrol TWS on the street since one rod escaped the engine

But congrats that it is running again!!!

NJRBMW · 10-29-2009, 02:40 PM

I had these same issues on my srt-10 viper truck with a sts turbo installed by ROE racing in green coe springs florida. Engine blew because of poor engine tuning by roe racing(very bad people to deal with) however STS stepped up and fixed the problem. Very great that g-power/auto talent has also stepped up.

Lemans_Blue_M · 10-29-2009, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by PencilGeek

I talked to Sam, he said they had to bore your block to the next piston size. I'm not sure what the next piston size may be, but here's the size of your new motor under two scenarios:

Oversize=0.25mm: 4021cc
Oversize=0.50mm: 4043cc

So you now have a few extra CC's to play with...just not sure which size it was.

Yep, that's exactly why I was messing with him about having a new 'stroker' engine. Jon didn't catch on to what I was talking about apparently.

That's because he now has more than the standard factory 3,999 cc engine the rest of us have ...

Strokers FTW! lol...

Jonmartin · 10-29-2009, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Lemans_Blue_M

Yep, that's exactly why I was messing with him about having a new 'stroker' engine. Jon didn't catch on to what I was talking about apparently.

That's because he now has more than the standard factory 3,999 cc engine the rest of us have ...

Strokers FTW! lol...

LOL I guess...

dlbrooks18 · 10-29-2009, 07:53 PM

Glad to hear you got your car fixed... why did you decide against re-installing the kit if you believe they worked out the problem? And if or when you do decide, will they do it for free again?

Jonmartin · 10-29-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by dlbrooks18

Glad to hear you got your car fixed... why did you decide against re-installing the kit if you believe they worked out the problem? And if or when you do decide, will they do it for free again?

I didn't decide against it I just didn't want to put it on a motor before break in and Autotalents work schedule is hectic. Besides I don't mind getting in some N/A time again I want to hit up the strip in November and see what I do N/A since I never got a chance before.

KiokenM3 · 10-29-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonmartin

I didn't decide against it I just didn't want to put it on a motor before break in and Autotalents work schedule is hectic. Besides I don't mind getting in some N/A time again I want to hit up the strip in November and see what I do N/A since I never got a chance before.

good stuff, we should meet up sometime in mexico

Jonmartin · 10-29-2009, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by KiokenM3

good stuff, we should meet up sometime in mexico

For sure u know I'm down whenever.

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gthirtyfizle Colonel 191 Rep 2,867 Posts Drives: E92 M3 AW Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: NYC iTrader: (4)	Damn, Its so sick that no one ever mentioned anything about the Gpower superchargers and blown motors until yesterday, and thats cause a member mentioned something. Meanwhile every kit out there had issues. Looks like everyone was keeping their mouths shut. Either way, Im glad they figured out the issues and taking care of all their customers. However it must suck to have almost all their kits fail.
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JCtx Major General 258 Rep 5,012 Posts Drives: No BMW yet Join Date: May 2008 Location: El Paso TX iTrader: (0)	Damn, I didn't know of the blown motors either. Seems like every GPower car blew its motor. What an expensive mistake not to properly test their kits, especially with so few sales and such an expensive motor. And the S65 it's not a weak motor by itself, but it's nearly maxed out from the factory (for street use, with the expected reliability and durability), so definitely weak if blown, no?
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Kyosho Lieutenant 17 Rep 568 Posts Drives: 991.2 GT3 // Panamera Turbo Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Irvine CA iTrader: (4)	That is awesome customer service for you there. I use to have a Twin Turbo G35 coupe, the people who installed it didnt wrap the wastegate line that ran to the wastegates, and it touched the exhausts and it melted. Right then, my boost gauge showed 25+ PSI and BAM bye bye engine. The shop who installed it did not want to take responsibility for their crappy work. Horrible experience. Im glad AutoTalent and Gpower did a good job __________________ Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."
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