Easy as pie girl. Thanks brian.

One thing to keep in mind is that the radiator or cooling system may have a pinhole leak, so the PO may have loaded the radiator with Barrs stop leak.
That stuff will make your coolant look like a melted chocolate milk shake.

So how did you end up making out with the car?

Yes Miss KayTee what's the verdict?

Also would like to know what happened

If your pulling the oil cooler any way I'd just cut the center bolt/tube shorter and delete it, there always a pain in the ass at some point or another.

Just for future reference the specs don't really mean anything when it comes to compression, what matters is the deviation between your highest cylinder and lowest cylinder.

I try to keep it under 10% for average to moderate builds but you may want to go even lower if you are really going to push the motor.

Let's say you make 600hp to the wheels, that means you make atleast 700 at the crank. So a 10% difference means there is the potential to have a 70hp difference between two of your cylinders and the difference just gets worse the more power you make. Could be the difference between breaking stuff or not if you're pushing it to the limits.

Ofcourse do compression tests with the motor warmed up to operating temp, and depending on you battery you may get more consistent results if you hook up jumper cables during the test as well.

ShadyDoins said:

Just for future reference the specs don't really mean anything when it comes to compression, what matters is the deviation between your highest cylinder and lowest cylinder.

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Service limits are there for stock vehicles only, Had this been a user with a modified engine (head work,pistons, so on) then I wouldn't of mentioned it. You can't compare a stock engine to a 600hp engine, the specs are going to be completely different, with much tighter tolerances.

just make sure you really flush out the coolant and maybe use an oil flush additive as well.

If it were me I would buy a new cooler unless what you're buying came off a running car.

If it came from a spun bearing motor dont use it.

Yes you don't want to chance any contaminates in your engine destroying bearings I learned the hard way.

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Kaytee I dont follow. You want to clean out your existing cooler? The one part you should replace is the cooler and I would go new. You cannot completely clean a used one. If there is any possibility of contamination ditch it. Your cooler is likely crushed and ruined.

Unless your autoxing the car why bother with the oil cooler. Those sandwich things are known problems.

I'd just delete it like said, ours doesnt have one.

I think its funny how many stalk this thread just to get a response cause your a chick
but kudos to you for working on your car I wish I knew some women that did

good read

http://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/do-i-need-an-oil-cooler.401139/

darknezz7 said:

I think its funny how many stalk this thread just to get a response cause your a chick

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Basically, but it is nice to see that some girls still work on their cars, I work at a large salvage yard in upstate NY and there is ONE girl that shows up for supra parts, she has a turbo MKIII that is incredible, and she drives it everywhere and works on it herself, It's hard to find, so I appreciate it a bit more then I would if it was a guy driving it.

So .. ahhhhhhhhhh my car barley started it's smoking a lot . It's all of a sudden has an exhaust leak so it's making a loud chugging noise and when it stall's it is a pain in the ass to get started before the battery died . The catalytic is glowing red when it just idles . Um yeah what did u do wrong ?! I also have an aftermarket oil filter sandwich plate if that make's a difference . I need my car running now since some family emergency came up . Please assist

My cooler was crushed I did replace but something happened . Idk what went wrong . And thank you I usually have my brother assist with it to make sure everything is good . But I don't usually trust mofo's working on my car .

Your catalytic converter might be clogged, does is smell like rotten eggs? Does it blow white or black smoke. If it's white which is my guess it might be your head gasket or antifreeze getting into the cylinders. I would find someone that is in your area that knows DSM's. Just search under the freelance area I'm sure someone can at least look or point you in the right way

Seriously, just take that sandwich off and ditch the oil cooler. All its doing is adding extra problems to what sounds like you have a lot of.

Unbolt the exhaust before the cat and see if it helps the engine.

If your coolant lights on, add coolant.