ya skill issue confirmed. I have a 2018 Si and I tuned and got the race MAF with the PRL CAI it at about 35k. Its at 70k atm and absolutely 0 issues. Im 99 percent sure im pushing 22/23 lbs of boost on mine. He must have neglected maintenance or something. Or he must have beat that thing to death trying to race people and brake boosting off launch and such. It doesn't help that he was doing it on a CVT model IMO as well.
Stock Sport Touring '18 is 16 PSI max boost, so this kid added 7 PSI. That's what blew it up. Also, I have a '24 Si -- connecting rods and other engine components are beefed up on Si's to handle higher boost pressures.
ngl this is absolutely a skill issue your nephew doesn't know what he's doing he blew up his car due to his own failure no need to slam ktuner they're a great company that provides an excellent tool allowing people to tune their cars easier
I wasn’t slamming them. But he blew the engine clean in half. I think you would be hard pressed to find one blown up like that without tuning software installed. But to your point, it could be the tuners fault, but I bet it was my nephew’s!
L15s are not known in the honda community for holding together after throwing more boost at them. This is still way worse than most, probably a poor tune. But not the honda most would chose to build.
Can't afford gas, but his parents will buy him a car and throw money at him for modding it. Sounds like the kid needs a job and some lessons in what money is worth. No way was he just "cruising" to blow it like that.
He blew it up at 70mph he didn't say what he was doing before it got to 70 lol that's always the story if you look at the logs it will be 30 lbs of boost 0 to 70 pull
This video is generally horrible, ill informed advice. The L15B motors can generally take/make up to about 280-300 HP and 300 ish TQ, on stock block internals. You can push them to about 500+ with a fully built block. It's not about the size of the engine, and that's why a tune blew it. It's all about what the tune was, and how he was driving it. I can almost guarantee you if you could look at the data right before it blew, that his K value (engine knock) was through the roof. That could be cause whoever setup the tune did a bad job and pushed the stock block too hard, it was tuned on a cold engine, or could be the kid cheaped out and put 87 octane gas in, while the tune was for 93. Either way something had to go wrong in the setup or treatment of the car for it to cause cylinder detonation to this extent. It's not that these are inherently flawed engines, that you can't safely modify. Or that they're too small to modify. Tons of people run these tuned all day long no issues. I ran my 2020 Civic Si Coupe for 3 years with no issues with just an off-the-shelf Si Phearable Tune. If some a-hole didn't smash into me from an oncoming lane, I'd still be driving it daily with no issues. Generally this is a good lesson for the kid, as long as he learns the right one...which is don't push things to the max without prepping the block/car for it to handle the power first. Don't push it past 85-90% of tolerance limits for daily drivers. And do your research...first.
Thanks for the reply, but I disagree with the video being horrible. I provided a well rounded story to include the baseline of the engine, I provided the beginning questions and my advice, and I showed the repercussions of bad decisions. Now, to your point, I agree with you that my nephew, his father, and the person who tuned are to blame. But more so my nephew. That motor was in all but two halves. And my thought is/was this and why I stand behind the video: if the tuner wasn’t setup on the car, there would almost always be zero percent chance this would have happened. At that’s the point of the video. Think twice. Thanks for the comment. I hope people will take time to read it. Good information!
@@x-coastieMy issue with the video isn't the story portion. It's the misinformed advice and conclusions you reach. If it was just telling a story and saying be careful, no problem. But your advice equates to "My friend was killed with a hammer. Don't buy or use hammers". The hammer isn't inherently dangerous, as the KTuner isn't inherently dangerous to your car. It's just a tool. What you do with it makes it either dangerous or not. KTuners are just a communication device/software to be able to re-flash your ECU with different programming. My issue is you blame the tool, not the user.
@@BigBear-- We're saying the same things and acting like there's a disagreement here. You can tell in the video that my sarcasm regarding my "Angel" nephew. It's implied that he's not an angel. I think most people will pick up on that. But just like the hammer story, if the person didn't have the hammer, would your friend still be alive? Most likely yes. So the hammer was the instrument of death, wielded by someone stupid. The K-Tuner in this case, was the instrument that caused carnage, used by someone stupid.
He ordered a car online with his parents money. Parents allowed him to slap a bunch of mods onto the car he doesn't have to pay for. Told his tuner to give him all the juice without knowing the value of a dollar or how cars work. Couldn't afford gas so he ran 87 octane on a hot ass tune for sure and blew that thing up. Parents are at fault here for letting a 15 year old run the show without knowing how life/cars/money work. 🤷
If you order a car on CarMax and it’s within a certain range, it’s a free transfer. That’s what he did. All other points you raised are great ones. This video is in part to the parents. Thanks for the comment!
