Buttonwillow NCRC 11/21/2010 - Mazda3 engine failure

[reynaldo77]

Yep, a rod failed. It was nearly 100º F ambient temps and I was pushing it super hard with the new close-ratio gearset keeping it under full boost the whole time, this combination was the nail in the coffin. I'm still happy with the reliability that I had with this turbo kit on the stock block for so long.

[snoooters]

@reynaldo77 thanks for the answer. for stock internals thats still pretty impressive. :D

[snoooters]

what happened? did a rod break?

[keepinitGcode]

why do you think this happened??

[bschuske]

Damn man, that sucks brother. You were haulin ass though man. You sucked up every car you came up on.....good job.

[graham1988]

Unlucky :( It looked RAPID before your problem though! I take it you noticed a big difference with the GT28 over the standard turbo? Coilovers look good too. I love the gauges, I wasn't willing to fork out nearly £200 for the pod gauge though thanks to high postage to England.