Someone needs to understand the difference between blowing up an engine & maintenance. The former is usually a result of a lack of the latter.
For the record, I've never blown an engine up in 45 years of owning powered transport of all kinds :wack: (I have worn a fair few out though...)
Maybe you can come back when you've done over 50K miles on track in the same GT3 & tell us how many rebuilds (or will it be blow ups?) you've had :floor:
To clarify, I rebuilt the whole engine at 85K miles but could have simply done a top-end refresh. 10K later & a couple of pistons had issues because the piston supplier hadn't gapped the rings correctly. That was a very minor rebuild. 30K miles after that, a different piston had a ring failure & the engine was rebuilt again with a Mahle motorsport piston & liner kit which with the benefit of hindsight is what I should have used on the 85K miles rebuild. In an ideal scenario that would mean only one rebuild. The engine is still on the original crank, cases, jackets, heads & cams. The bottom end shows absolutely no wear but the rods & oil pump have been replaced for safety.
The car is just about to clock 152K miles & is running like clockwork.
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