My motor grenaded.

black_sedan

Until the motor is torn down, its hard to say its the tuner's fault. If the motor was starved for oil due to a bad oil pump you cant blame it on the tuner. Again, not taking sides... But there are so many factors outside of the control of the tuner.

Joepro's suggestion would probably be best. Put the motor back to stock and have the dealer look it over. Keep in mind, if the dealer does figure out the car was modded you can be on the hook the diagnostics labor.

DEpointfive0

Very true. and Nissan is now full of cheap motherfuckers so they'll be LOOKING for unscrewed nuts and bolts. You can deny, yeah, but how much?

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Joepro

Again to trying to beat a dead horse, but if it got to a judge, the judge will ask for proof the engine was tampered with in a manor to cause the failure, and the dealer will respond with what, a bolt is loose? It won't fly, trust me, been there, lost that . However, there is a member on the forum that had an engine replaced twice with his car boosted, some dealers just don't care, it will depend on their warranty expense that month, that will be the only reason they will look to deny it, no one wants a motor claim under non-discretionary. Again, it just depends on the goal of the car, if it were me, that is the route I would take, the SC kits are far less intrusive that the turbo kits, as long as VSR did not make any of their own permanent modifications and followed the bolt on instructions, I would go for it, the kit has to come off at some point anyway...I actually considered the VSR kit for awhile, but they only do in-house builds, at lease now if my motor goes to installation error I can only blame myself! To be honest, I would not have boosted this car if I did not have a shop to work in and the knowledge I have(not saying Im a mechanical genius) but I would have bough my HP, c7 looks awfully good for the price point! My second route would be used motor, sell the SC kit, trade trade that b^$%h in.

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Chuck33079

Could the motor have just let go? Sure, it could have happened that way. But considering how much difficulty VSR had getting the SC installed and running right in the first place and then the motor just happens to let go right after, I'm very inclined to believe they fubar'd the install and tune.

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