Oh yes you have! It's just that most of the time it looks like this: **** you, you son of a *****. U.M.
I don't doubt the car is fine. But saying what you have about caring so much for the car, I would think the first thing you would have done is get the car dynoed after changing to the 2.8. I too use James, but he even admits that his tunes are only close, not right on. He asks you to datalog some WOT pulls on the street or dyno so he can tweak the tune in. If the tune IS off, I can almost bet that it is off on the fat/safe side. And to address you comments about the pistons, like UM said, it all has to do with the .001 PTW clearance that ford used to get rid of the famous modular cold "piston rattle". The pistons are infact teflon coated forged pieces. Not the best but better then the 2v crap. The skirts and lands fail do to heat expansion under long WOT runs, when they expand and literally "fuse" themselves to the cylinder wall. If you were to rebuild the stock block with a slightly larger bore, I bet you would see far fewer failures. So yes, there are a few of us in here that really "know" the terminator.
another RWTD customer here and like UM said James always tells you to get the a/f check just to make sure since every car is different. These motors are not cheap so a hundred $$$ of so just to see if your safe is worth it to me.
That's the funniest thing I have read in this whole thread. Any tuner worth a crap will tell you that detonation is not always audible. That is why it is important to get it on a dyno to see timing and A/F.
I hear what everyone is saying and when I get a chance I will go get dynoed just to be sure. I've been real good friends with jwaknbeef for a long time now and all he has ever owned is mustangs, so I have no doubt in my mind that he knows what he's talking about. And, thanks for explaining to everyone about the modifications you did to the car, because I know a little about these cars, but not that much. I just know that the car is awesome and I was real lucky to be able to take over. And, when I do get Dynoed I'm coming pick you up Jonny that way you can tell them what we need to know.
