New member!! With a blown up Fiesta from MI

[Harvick]

I see a Livernois Motorsports decal on the back of your car, did you use their tune?

 

[SirSlaughter]

Hey there. I'm currently in school to get my ASE certifications and become a technician. I'm super excited to see what I'm seeing in this thread. Please keep posting pictures as this kind of info is invaluable for me. Especially since in the future I want to go Forged internals and upgrades on everything I can possibly do for my FiST.

Also, seeing as you're taking the whole engine apart, hows that carbon buildup? Does it seems excessive with the amount of miles you have on your car?
Please keep posting all the pics you can. Also sorry it had to happen this way. Losing a piston like that worries me sometimes.

 

[MKVIIST]

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[MENTION=3318]Chris B[/MENTION]

Welcome aboard!

I can see this being a very informative thread for us. Would you mind starting a new thread with a new title? I can then make it a sticky so we can all follow your progress.

You can post it in this forum.
http://www.fiestastforum.com/forum/forums/49-Maintenance-Warranty-Issues-amp-Troubleshooting

 

[Sekred]

Hi Chris

Typically lower ring land failure is due to severe detonation. Detonation like this is very audible and it only takes a few seconds to cause a failure, did you notice if the engine was pinging under load. A tank of crap fuel is all it takes.
Scuffing on the piston skirt indicates overheating which I can,t see in your photo.

 

[rexdriver85]

How's the cylinder wall look? Can the block be saved? That piston looks pretty nasty. I'd be afraid of metal in the oil pump and oil cooler as well.

 

[MMMTRBO]

Welcome! Just curious, was the car tuned? Why didn't you warranty the motor?

 

[Chris B]

The car has never been tuned. I bought the car with 2500 miles on from auction with rebuilt title. The car has no warranty. I am really excited to rebuild this motor I could not believe how cheap the parts were to rebuild this engine. 170 bucks for everything I needed including entire gasket set. Ford even let me borrow the timing tool set that is a must to get this thing timed. I got extremely luck not even a scratch on the cyl walls!!! I could not believe it.

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[Chris B]

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[Coolnezzz]

The car has never been tuned. I bought the car with 2500 miles on from auction with rebuilt title. The car has no warranty. I am really excited to rebuild this motor I could not believe how cheap the parts were to rebuild this engine. 170 bucks for everything I needed including entire gasket set. Ford even let me borrow the timing tool set that is a must to get this thing timed. I got extremely luck not even a scratch on the cyl walls!!! I could not believe it.

Really curious what kind of damage this car suffered to warrant a salvage title.

 

[me32]

Glad its gonna be a cheap an easy fix. So im assuming the car was in a wreck which is why you have a rebuilt title.

 

[NorthernProducer]

Welcome...sorry to hear your engine blew!

 

[Chris B]

You wouldn't believe it if you saw it the was in an accident in the front it suffered damage in the hood and front bumper I will see if I can find some pics of it. It even drove fine. I really don't know how they called it a total loss I think it's just the nature of the car maybe the Uni body or something. No mechanical parts were damaged just body. I work for a service dept all it takes is a slight tweak to the front core support and its a total loss.

 

[Sourskittle]

Well that's a good explanation !! Lol. But still affords you the chance to dig into that thing.

You going back bone stock?
I'd have to send the head off for some valves, bowl work, and ARP head studs while its out... I personally don't think I'll ever "out power" this motor, so as long as the rpms and "wear and tear" hold out, the stock rods/pistons/crank are pretty awesome.

But things like head work and head studs require a lot of disassembly to do twice...
Keep the pics coming though, I know we are all pretty interested in seeing everything from the crank to the rods to the pistons.

 

[gizyuluu]

I need , this is great info. Sorry you had to go through that so early on, and welcome to the forum.

 

[Dustys318]

Looking at the open deck I can see why Livernois press fit a plate to fill it for the crazy boost they added to the 3.5 ecoboost... *falls asleep

I think it's time to buy a spare long block and do some Darton MID sleeves, have Wiseco make ceramic coated pistons to the 2.7 bore size, custom Ferrea valves, port and polish the head, ceramic coat the redesigned chamber to accommodate proper quench design, increase CR to 12.0, use the 4 lobe fuel cam from the 2.3 to increase flow to use E85, use a GTX2871R turbo and hit 500whp....

*wakes up drooling

 

[Sourskittle]

Looking at the open deck I can see why Livernois press fit a plate to fill it for the crazy boost they added to the 3.5 ecoboost... *falls asleep

I think it's time to buy a spare long block and do some Darton MID sleeves, have Wiseco make ceramic coated pistons to the 2.7 bore size, custom Ferrea valves, port and polish the head, ceramic coat the redesigned chamber to accommodate proper quench design, increase CR to 12.0, use the 4 lobe fuel cam from the 2.3 to increase flow to use E85, use a GTX2871R turbo and hit 500whp....

*wakes up drooling

On 93octane... Lol

 

[TheStig]

This is porn and very informative. Im surprised the cost was so low to fix this, of course you did your own labor which helps a ton.

Just seeing this motor pulled apart is awesome, albeit sucky for the OP since he experienced a very odd failure.

I always forget our cars are DI so the pistons look so funny with that big bowl in the top.

 

[Chris B]

I have more pics to post. I got it all together and it runs like new!!! I can not believe how smooth it runs. I'm still braking it all in. I have 142 miles on it now. Not even a cel! I took it to my local dealer and they ran a complete scan on it to check it all over for me live data afr checked all the injectors did a full sweep on the car and they found nothing wrong thank god. They also found a system update for ecm so they updated and flashed it all. Now the car is in like a learn mode they said where it logs all your driving habits all over again for a fresh start. It was crazy I got on the car just a little bit and it felt really really slow after they updated it..... Like I lost 50hp! Then the next day after work I gave it maybe half throttle in sixth at like 65mph and BANG!!!! A loud explosion under the car.... Then I had absolutely no power, it sounded like gunshot! I crawled under and found my intercooler hot side tube popped of ... Lmao that's why I had no power it must of had a slight boost leak. It was odd because it was right after he flashed it so I thought it was the ecm. What an experience

 

[J2FoRS]

This is a great thread! Sucks for you having to go through it but sounds like you likely got a good deal on this as a rebuild and having some fun rebuilding her. Keep us updated!

 

[our guile]

Then the next day after work I gave it maybe half throttle in sixth at like 65mph and BANG!!!! A loud explosion under the car.... Then I had absolutely no power, it sounded like gunshot! I crawled under and found my intercooler hot side tube popped of ... Lmao that's why I had no power it must of had a slight boost leak. It was odd because it was right after he flashed it so I thought it was the ecm. What an experience

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