Tradewind wrote:No, not by far does it get them all
Get the KiDo tune immediately, brings on the radiator fans sooner etc and reduces engine heat that critical bit to significantly reduce HGF risk
And yet by the far the most common factor that every H6 HG failure in club.lib has had was that they had a Kido tune.
Even if you think he is some kind of thermo-dynamics engineer, we know he likes to tell people so - doesn't mean you need to pass that information onto others - without having done any fact checking of your own.
"But he's tuned every H6 in Aus, so of course some will go". Sure, you can take that argument. But it's not just "some", it's basically 95% of the ones I know of in club.lib, which is at least 10 cars. The engine might be flawed, but there is absolutely no evidence his tune helps anything. In fact if you consider the evidence - it probably makes it worse (and science/common sense would say so too - more torque, for longer = more stress on the engine).
Exactly same discussion we had about E85 numerous times before, for some reason people think they can make more torque, in a broader rev range and somehow the components of the engine will have an easier time handling it, when they fail even on stock torque levels. Then we have 2.5L HGs on E85 failing left right and centre, numerous times a week - and still some tuners will tell you "there is absolutely no issue, just needs to be a safe tune". Even when the HG is on their very own tunes. "Oh must've been some other issue". On a brand new, built engine? And not once, but across the board - states/tuners/builder etc? Sure.
A lot of people don't learn, or think for themselves it seems. They'd rather get an "oh yeah, it's a safe tune" from their tuner and not worry about it. Ignorance is bliss.
/rant