Engine build TuneRS
Racer
Joined: Aug 2019
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From: Central Coast, California
The car I have now that I'm just about to put in a rebuilt 3.8L engine in originally had a TuneRS rebuilt motor in it. The original owner brought it to them after a dropped valve seat in cylinder 5 at 70K miles. The rebuilt engine failed again at 116K miles with guess what... a dropped valve seat at #5. From what I can tell from the PO's receipts from TuneRS (and there were a LOT), they continued to use the same injectors after the original failure. This seems to be something a top notch shop would have required? Maybe not - maybe just FSI... I'm not saying they are a bad shop, maybe they didn't have the knowledge of injectors being a potential failure point back then, as this rebuild took place in 2012.
Racer
Joined: Jul 2018
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From: Boise, ID
When I received my LN Engineering RND engine there were parts I had to buy as part of the install. One was new injectors, not rebuilt but new. They have had to much trouble with used injectors in their new engines.
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Joined: Sep 2017
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From: Norcal
The car I have now that I'm just about to put in a rebuilt 3.8L engine in originally had a TuneRS rebuilt motor in it. The original owner brought it to them after a dropped valve seat in cylinder 5 at 70K miles. The rebuilt engine failed again at 116K miles with guess what... a dropped valve seat at #5. From what I can tell from the PO's receipts from TuneRS (and there were a LOT), they continued to use the same injectors after the original failure. This seems to be something a top notch shop would have required? Maybe not - maybe just FSI... I'm not saying they are a bad shop, maybe they didn't have the knowledge of injectors being a potential failure point back then, as this rebuild took place in 2012.
