Quote Originally Posted by bluesrt View Post
Im gonna highjack the thread, is it just me or does it seem to be all the gearheads that have modded a gen v have not had a engine failure?. Is there any known. ?. Seems people that know a working engine have no failure rate.no? Besides ralphs.
I think there are a fair number of "at risk" cars that were modded to their owner's liking and been fine. I know a few people not on the forums that have the arrow and a few bolt-ons with 7k+ miles with no issues. Andy knows the stats of his H&C packages but only 1-2 have failed I believe out of maybe 45 cars? I'm not sure about Woodhouse numbers but I haven't heard of one H&C car fail. Again, this is ballpark but maybe 2 out of 60+ have failed which is a far lower % than the average. I think most of the highly modded cars are driven often and well-maintained. There's no guarantee but you can mitigate the risk factors by doing the following:
1. Check oil correctly and often
2. Row the gears!
3. Get a baseline Blackstone analysis and repeat for any trends

Regarding the started thread, I agree with Andy in having trust in Winkles execution decision and make changes with the PCM instead of doing a 180. For everyone that says it's a conservative tune well they are correct. However, outside of a few dyno runs, the 1/4 mile times and actual trap speeds tell a story that the cars are running very very strong with the Winkles ECU. There are awesome tuners out there doing some great things but I am constantly amazed at how streetable my car is with nearly 800 all motor horsepower.

Dave