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Old 10-19-2012   #21
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Re: Going to battle it out with Mitsubishi

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Originally Posted by Kracka View Post
Didn't you say you missed a gear and grabbed another by accident? That would be a mechanical over-rev, no rev-limiter can stop that.

My theory is that the over-rev damaged a spark plug and then the damaged spark plug caused some crazy detonation damaging the rod.
How would the over-rev damage a spark plug?

I could see if it had been missing a lot (the multiple miss fire codes) that the rod could have been taking a beating the whole time it was missing trying to do pulls then just randomly let go. I threw a rod on my old celica just doing 75/80 down the highway when it was full of oil.

Were you getting on it at all when it let go?

I agree that I don't really see how one over-rev could make a rod shoot threw the block 50 miles later, especially only 500rpm over-rev.

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