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Originally Posted by stevens
Not to cause any more agro, but if I had a supercharged or any form of forced induction car for that matter, id be fitting an AFR regardless, hell id even consider one on my N/A just for the fancy lights!.
But to have 3 Supercharger levels and 3 engines all go pop because of fueling, its insane to think he never had one on the first let alone the last.
More money than sense and I dont think this willl be the last engine of his to go pop personally.
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First two engines did not get damaged from lack of fuel, they were simply overboosted and eventually gave out. The first engine ran 67000 miles with substantial overboost on a 625 setup (9+PSI), and the second engine was massively overboosted to 11+PSI for a drag race event which is a sure engine killer. The customer chose to do this on his own despite us telling him exactly what happens if he does. All that mattered to Sergei was to win the event, at the expense of a S65 engine. A lot of customers are like this, they do not care about consequences of overboosting when warned by us. Until it actually blows up that is, then it is usually someone elses fault even if we told them up front exactly what would happen.
ESS does not normally build custom setups at all, but we have occasionally done special jobs for some race customers like Sergei and Drew. Sergei contracted us to supply a built VT3 spec S65 engine, and install it in his car along with a new high capacity fuel system and a 13-14PSI pulley configuration along with matching software. We did exactly that and told him there are no warranty stated or implied and that every aspect of the new engines operation must be monitored when running it hard and to not run it hard until this equipment was installed. We do not sell or supply/install gauges at all, most heavy race customers at this level have their own preference of what they like and want to use. We simply do the engine job they specify exactly as they specify and the rest is up to them. If they explode their engine/transmission or driveline down the road, that is entirely their own problem on a custom race build.