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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. Here are some of my favorites:
Neglected VR30DDTT    • 60K Miles on 1 Oil Change!?! Infiniti...  
Poor Honda S2000 F20C    • Honda S2000 F20C1 Catastrophic Engine...  
The Nissan VQ40DE I saved from the scrap pile    • Found a Nissan VQ40DE In Scrap Pile, ...  
Honda J35 that deleted itself    • Obliterated Honda Accord J35 V6 Teard...  

Today we tear down a 1.6L Gamma II 1.6L 4cyl from a 2019 Kia Rio S with just 83k miles! The Gamma engine is in a ton of different Hyundai and Kia models and is still produced today. There are many different variants of this engine, this one being the G4FG, a non turbo direct injected engine that makes about 130hp found in the Hyundai Accent and Kia Rio.
This engine clearly suffered a catastrophic event, but why? Was it poor maintenance? Run low on oil? Manufacturing defect? The failure this engine suffered definitely raises some eyebrows.


Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes buying blown up engines and dismantling to salvage the good parts to resell. We do not rebuild or repair engines, we simply supply parts to people who do! I've left links at the top to reach us about parts.

I really hope you enjoyed this teardown, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!

-Eric