Destroyed Piston from 2015 Mustang GT

[luke1333]

Blinking engine light= really bad misfire situation. Possible hydrolock. If your engine light blinks turn the engine off right away. Park it and get a tow truck.

agreed

Why is it hard to believe that this could be damage from a stock tune? the 11-14 had issues with the stock tune mustangs losing the #8 cylinder. My mustang '11 had a cam phaser failure that totaled my entire engine around 5500 miles. My car was completely stock down to the tune, but it still let go. Shaun from Aed posted a while back that there was an inherent problem with the ford stock tune. people didn't usually have problems as long as they didn't stay WOT for more than a few seconds. I believe the ford tune problem would show up if you went WOT for around 7 seconds or more. I'm not saying this could possibly be something else, but to say that this is impossible to happen under stock form is insane to believe.

and agreed

 

[Zemedici]

Why is it hard to believe that this could be damage from a stock tune? the 11-14 had issues with the stock tune mustangs losing the #8 cylinder. My mustang '11 had a cam phaser failure that totaled my entire engine around 5500 miles. My car was completely stock down to the tune, but it still let go. Shaun from Aed posted a while back that there was an inherent problem with the ford stock tune. people didn't usually have problems as long as they didn't stay WOT for more than a few seconds. I believe the ford tune problem would show up if you went WOT for around 7 seconds or more. I'm not saying this could possibly be something else, but to say that this is impossible to happen under stock form is insane to believe.

I'm not saying it CANT happen, but for a rod (or wrist pin) to spontaneously fail on a stock pressure/compression/everything motor, causing a window in the cylinder wall/destroy the piston like that, on a stock tune with no power adder is UNLIKELY.

Its MORE likely that the car had a centrifugal/roots on it, or even Nitrous (most likely, imo), and therefore the upped cylinder pressure caused the failure.

Again, I wasn't there, and I could be wrong, but that'd be my guess.

 

[luke1333]

I'm not saying it CANT happen, but for a rod (or wrist pin) to spontaneously fail on a stock pressure/compression/everything motor, causing a window in the cylinder wall/destroy the piston like that, on a stock tune with no power adder is UNLIKELY.

Its MORE likely that the car had a centrifugal/roots on it, or even Nitrous (most likely, imo), and therefore the upped cylinder pressure caused the failure.

Again, I wasn't there, and I could be wrong, but that'd be my guess.

agreed as well. the likely answer is boost/nitrous

 

[Zemedici]

Failures do happen however, could be bad wrist pin, bad piston. It happens. In for results.

 

[SILV03MustangGT]

subbed

 

[specizripn]

Maybe the one of the pistons wanted to visit its neighbor so it made a window

 

[Rct851]

My 2013 had a cracked head. Weird stuff can happen.

 

[Todd03Blown]

This was just posted on the Facebook thread:

Kevin Flowers Timothy works at a dealer...service employees find these things out in bulletins and news from the manufacturer but they don't give all the details. They track the failures so they know how to address the situation...recalls, programs, etc. He has access to information that you don't about this stuff, because he has to fix it... not everything is a conspiracy....original picture has repair order and service history paperwork on the table underneath it.

 

[jdcobra]

I call BS. No way that was done stock with stock tune, and its called the "GT Performance package", not track pack. The only problem is the guy from "BOG" isn't likely telling 100% of the truth.

 

[jdcobra]

Maybe the one of the pistons wanted to visit its neighbor so it made a window

:lol:

 

[Zemedici]

This was just posted on the Facebook thread:

Kevin Flowers Timothy works at a dealer...service employees find these things out in bulletins and news from the manufacturer but they don't give all the details. They track the failures so they know how to address the situation...recalls, programs, etc. He has access to information that you don't about this stuff, because he has to fix it... not everything is a conspiracy....original picture has repair order and service history paperwork on the table underneath it.

so you think people dont spray nitrous/put turbos on shit then try to get it fixed under warranty ever?

Again, not saying this happened, but there's 3 sides to every story.

 

[jdcobra]

agreed as well. the likely answer is boost/nitrous

+1

 

[DHG1078]

It is possible that his car had a bad part that let go so early, but my money is on nitrous.

 

[Todd03Blown]

so you think people dont spray nitrous/put turbos on shit then try to get it fixed under warranty ever?

Again, not saying this happened, but there's 3 sides to every story.

Oh, I agree with you. I just posted what was just shared on the FB thread.

 

[jdcobra]

They guy probably sprayed the car because someone told him that the new engine can handle more power than it could and got pissed because he blew his shit up and started bad mouthing the cars. Seen it a hundred times

 

[zinc03svt]

Will the same guys repeating the same stuff over and over (spectulations only) stop. Like 13 year olds crying...

 

[jdcobra]

This whole thread is a speculation because nobody knows the truth about what really happened.

 

[13COBRA]

This whole thread is a speculation because nobody knows the truth about what really happened.

You've been on SVTP long enough to know that all threads are like that lol

 

[jdcobra]

You've been on SVTP long enough to know that all threads are like that lol

Lol I just hoped they'd die down or phase out by now but guess not. Still somewhat entertaining.

 

[black99lightnin]

Blinking engine light= really bad misfire situation. Possible hydrolock. If your engine light blinks turn the engine off right away. Park it and get a tow truck.

Agreed a blinking CEL is a misfire. Wonder if an injector stuck? I don't see this being a factory tune issue. I could see it being related to a tune though. For those that work at Ford can you see if the car has been tuned?