Chris,
I believe that he is talking about Hiram (KJ auto)--even though it is hard to come to that conclusion since his sentence structure and spelling sucks. Please write complete and readable e-mails, it makes things much easier
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He is probably talking about Bee's civic (Beeyond Engineering)--Bee, if you are out there, can you give some input on this thread??
It sounded like that car was in a poor state of tune while doing the baseline testing, and then the motor failed.
As for Hiram's experience tuning and wrenching on cars, please think again--he does have experience in a pretty wide range of vehicles and tuning. It may not be to the level that you want, but he is not a SPECIALTY tuner and it is difficult to learn the quirks of certain vehicles--especially turbocharged (with non-factory systems) applications.
I do not believe that it is Hiram's fault for the motor failure--they tuned it, he drove it--it was not preloaded. Anyways, there is a contract waiver signed for this such reason. It would have blown up just as easily in the same tune on the street or at the track--just because it failed on the dyno, you cannot blame it on him.
Either way, it is in the past. he has dynoed many cars since then, and does know his dynometer now.