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Oh hey guise :action-smiley-069:

Just a suggestion but the tuner could have set rev limit to hard cut at 2000 which would have made it easier to diagnose

They may have done this, I'm not sure how they found it in the end, I went in to give them a hand on Friday and they had already found the problem and sorted it out. Just kept me in the dark about it, they must like suspense almost as much as me ;)

I'll post pictures hopefully later today guys, pictures are worth a thousand words...

Well... Sort of. Not really. I can't for the life of me understand what happened. I certainly didn't do it. But I can't see how my workshop would have done it either.

Will make more sense when I post photos. Which I can't do yet because I haven't got the car back yet :glare:

Explain the hole. Could this have damaged a valve or stick a valve open?

Possibly, I imagine when you shatter a cast alloy manifold like that there will be some debris. But I don't know which cylinder the valve problem is on, if it is only cylinder 1 then I imagine the shattered manifold was the cause.

I'm just waiting for my tuner to add up how much I owe them and then I'm going in to get the car home, so I'll post photos in a few hours.

IE could it have created debris that the motor could have ingested on its maiden limiter bash?

Again, quite possible. Thing is, I would expect that shards of cast alloy getting stuck in the valve guides would cause more of a permanent problem than just on full load power runs, ie. bent valves?

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