Tried to do a leakdown test and couldn't get any pressure in one cylinder and another one was leaking into an adjacent cylinder, took the head off and here's what I found. One toasty exhaust valve. The weirdest part is I drove it home before I got a no start in the morning.

gonna start tonight after work hopefully

timing is dead on, checked that first and double checked it.no water in the oil, but there is a little shimmer on top of the coolant, kinda looked like oil, but it wasn't much so it was hard to tell.my thoughts exactly, i damn sure don't wanna do a head gasket and put it back together to...

So when I checked my compression with the crappy oreilly compression gauge, i got 120,90,60,0. the tester wouldn't hold pressure, but I'm 90% sure its head gasket, but i wanna see if theres any other opinions on it first

building the 420a is an expensive uphill battle, you can get a gst/gsx for next to nothing these days

So the compression tester i got was garbage, and would not hold , but i was watching the gauge and had somebody crank for me, looking at the engine left to right numbers were 120,90,60,0. fml. went back to cyl 1 and it was still 120, i know the numbers are low from the shit tester, but i still...

no ecmlink for me, i have no option to change ecm settings, so i can rule that out, my turbo seals are about shot, and i do blow a little oil. Maybe i'm reading too far into it and new plugs will help later

Cant get it wrong if you tried, I have them mounted on a plate, straight on straight off.Definitely fuel, i looked to see i I knocked anything loose, not that luckyNo new parts were added and nothing has been changed recently other than my oil, thats the frustrating part, but hopefully i can...

Checked and double checked

There was no backfire when I popped it off, just got a little boost happy, pulled over put it back on and it fired right up. Drove it home fine. When I tried to start it this morning I started getting the backfire, no emissions here so I'm open 3" turbo back with an open dump on the wg. Pulled...

I poured got water in too to try to warm up the coolant temp sensor. No luck

I don't have a leak tester, but I did re-check everything from the j-pipe to tb, the compression tester I got didn't have the right fitting so now I have to find another one of those

So, I'm new on the forum, been lurking on and off for years, and not new to dsm by any stretch. I got a 95 talon w/1g head, coil on plug, manual swap, 16g, 255 walbro....anyways, got fuel, got spark, timing lines up, and a fresh battery, all I can get is a backfire but no start, compression test...