if the procede was removed there is no way for a residual ghost tune to be affecting the car, much in the same way that removing an XEDE or standback would henceforth remove any tune from the vehicle.
there are few guys who have blown stock motors. heck there is one guy posting here about how mazda wanted to stick him with a $14000 bill and voided his warranty on a stock mazdaspeed6 when his bottom end let go. weak ass internals is what i have been preaching all along. every car you are going to see a few bad apples, it happens. but there really isn't any valid reason why if these internals were the beefy wunderkinds people preach that they are that they should let go stock and let go so violently. all arguments about whether or not they are forged is moot at this point in my opinion. when you have rods punching holes in the block and snapping off from freak downshifts, stock vehicles, stock motors or when you've supposedly been tuned running pig rich with safe EGTs it shows they are weak, pure plain and simple and they should not be ultimately relied on to make big numbers. i said a year ago when people asked why speed6 motors were blowing before speed3 motors, give those guys time to put more mods and more miles and more abuse on them. you are beginning to see more speed3s popping engines as time moves on. you almost always see the rods snap on these before anything else in the engine fails and you almost always see it happen on the same cylinder with the rod exiting the block in consistently the same location.
