Long Post bear with me please.
Well after a long day of fighting bolts, and plugs and everything else that wanted to be a lil biot ch. Its in and runing. It ran a lil hot at first but seemed to cool back down to regular temps after a half hour. There seems to be a small exhaust leak somewhere. But its running and driving.
The bad news is the number 8 cylander only showed like 50 compression. Now since the car doesnt drive like it has a miss or anything. my boys dad is under the impression that the ring just needs to reseat its self. and the only way to do that is drive it. Im not so sure about that type of thing. Im waiting 50 miles to get on it full throttle again to see what happens. We did set base timing this time to about 8 though. Im getting pretty poor gas milage and the no 8 spark plug looked like it was runing a lil rich and i dont know how to fix this (didnt check them all just that one since we compression checked it).
So my question is if i dont get that cyalnder back up to full strength what should i do? If i run the motor how long will it last or should i start making motor plans?
If i do i have 3 plans so far.
a)I can have a motor build with low compression pistons, stock everything else o-ringed with maybe a turbo cam, and new injectors.
2)take the car off the road for a long while (unhappilly) and build up a motor with aluminum heads, intake, stroked type thing.
#)Take all the turbo stuff off sell it for like 3k and build a stout 351 stroker.
Suggestions?
Well after a long day of fighting bolts, and plugs and everything else that wanted to be a lil biot ch. Its in and runing. It ran a lil hot at first but seemed to cool back down to regular temps after a half hour. There seems to be a small exhaust leak somewhere. But its running and driving.
The bad news is the number 8 cylander only showed like 50 compression. Now since the car doesnt drive like it has a miss or anything. my boys dad is under the impression that the ring just needs to reseat its self. and the only way to do that is drive it. Im not so sure about that type of thing. Im waiting 50 miles to get on it full throttle again to see what happens. We did set base timing this time to about 8 though. Im getting pretty poor gas milage and the no 8 spark plug looked like it was runing a lil rich and i dont know how to fix this (didnt check them all just that one since we compression checked it).
So my question is if i dont get that cyalnder back up to full strength what should i do? If i run the motor how long will it last or should i start making motor plans?
If i do i have 3 plans so far.
a)I can have a motor build with low compression pistons, stock everything else o-ringed with maybe a turbo cam, and new injectors.
2)take the car off the road for a long while (unhappilly) and build up a motor with aluminum heads, intake, stroked type thing.
#)Take all the turbo stuff off sell it for like 3k and build a stout 351 stroker.
Suggestions?