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Took a closer look today

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parchisi

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If you don't remember, couple weeks ago I got the car running great, then it started knocking and missing after I shifted hard into 3rd.

Long story short, I looked under the valve covers, the valvetrain looks good and all the spark plugs look normal. Still knocking fairly loudly and missing/stuttering under load. I think I'm just going to go ahead, pull the engine and take a peak at the heads and bottom end. Something tells me this might get expensive.
 

Pokageek

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Dumb ques..maybe..what if you added octane boost? I am curious what would happen. At this point you aren't worrying about blowing it up.
 

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