So Whats Up?

The engine is dead due to Innovative Mounts I had installed. Heres the reason, I installed the mounts earlier this year, and the company shorted me hardware. I called them and asked if I could get my bolts, talked to the woman on phone, that always answers, put me on hold forever like normal and then handed me over to the tech, where he proceeded to give me his spill. You would think for such a large company customer satisfaction would come pretty high and sending me 4 bolts would be no big deal. However it was not the case, the tech said it was a mistake I should use my OEM bolts on my engine and they would not send me hardware. So fine I went ahead, and let it be know at this point that yes I know the left and right mount bolts are different lengths, and I know what a bolt bottoming out feels and looks like, but don't forget I also used a torque wrench. So it was a ticking time bomb with the OEM bolts in the mount. I believe that the when I spun the car at the Auto X it put enough lateral load on the engine and thats with the bolts snapped through the block. Finally took the pan off found the bearing pieces and the block pieces and then found where they came from and why. I called Innovative Mounts back and told them whats up. They told me too bad that it happened and they had no problem sending me the bolts at this point. Gee thanks. I was expecting more than a "I don't care" attitude after all I had told them that this was there fault due to the information giving to me by there tech, who I was talking to. Hopping maybe they would see this and prevent this from happening to someone else. So here I am. This was at in inopportune time, because my Go Pro and ASM front lip was on its way, the car was really coming along. So what do I do went after another engine wanting to keep the stock engine and not have anything crazy I sourced what should have been a stock engine. Took it home put it under the knife carefully taking the damaged pieces off the head and by the way whoever put the head together sucks at life. I was really excited to be back up and running soon. It turned out to be a ERL sleeved block with Wiseco pistons built for boost, this puts me back at square one.

Here was the block pieces

From the mount bolts Picture 1

Picture 2

Comparing wasn't hard

I picked up a Nikon D3100 as I promised for the blog finally last night. I know you keep hearing this but the wheels are still turning at a slow pace. But, I got some essentials down now.  Heres a glimpse at a few pictures I took today.