2 broken oil squirters=car sluggish/lack of power?

[greathuskie]

could the 2 broken oil squirters that i have cause my car to run poorly, the car seems like it has a severe lack of power and im wondering if this is one of the reasons

i didnt replace them or anything i was told i could leave tehm as be because it wouldnt hurt anything but now im secondguessing that

if i replace them all with bolts/remove the squirters will that make the car better?

 

[greathuskie]

bizzump fo shizzo

 

[RandyJr]

Dude, what are you talking about? You have to be more descriptive than that. I know a lot about DSM's but I have no idea at all what you could be even hinting at.

 

[zzzwilliams3200]

are you possibly talking about the little squirters that hit the pistons/cyl walls with oil? I was always under the impression that they were necessary for it to run smooth. That might be whats causing the sluggishness

 

[greathuskie]

Dude, what are you talking about? You have to be more descriptive than that. I know a lot about DSM's but I have no idea at all what you could be even hinting at.

if you knew alot about DSMs you would know what an oil squirter is

 

[ArticNemesis]

I'm just curious, but how do you know that you have 2 broken oil squirters.?? If you had the block torn down to actually see them, why not just replace them.?

 

[greathuskie]

cuz i dropped my oil pan and saw them in there, was told that i could leave them like that so i did (as in leave the half of the squirter that was still in place where it was) and now im curious as to if that is my problem or not

 

[mavisky]

i can't imagine that it's doing anything good for your motor whatsoever if two of them are broken. it seems to me that you'd have a big problem with oil pressure which could mean your bearings aren't getting enough lubrication which could cause severe damage but also a drop in engine power since you're grinding the metal away. but that all really depends on just how broken they are.

as far as fixing it with bolts in their place, that's not the greatest idea. if your bolts were too long you could possibly block off a very large amount of the oilflow to the engine. i'd imagine the bolts couldn't be too awful long before they'd cause issues, and if they were too short you could run into an issue of them rattling loose at which point your oil pressure problems would be worse off than with the two broken ones.

i'd personally tear at least a main cap and a rod cap off and plastigage the bearings to make sure everything is in check and then replace the two oil squirters with a pair of replacement squirters from the factory.

 

[greathuskie]

wont they just break off again?

 

[mavisky]

if so then there's something more wrong with your car than you know. those squirters are not designed to break off or anything. i'd hope that its a one time thing with those breaking.

if you put new ones in and they break then something is obviously hitting them and the only thing i could imagine would be the pistons or rods due to their location. if those are flying around that out of spec then your motor is junk already.

 

[greathuskie]

well i have crower rods and wiseco pistons, would that have anything to do with it, like the size of the rods?

 

[ArticNemesis]

well i have crower rods and wiseco pistons, would that have anything to do with it, like the size of the rods?

It shouldn't matter, unless you have bearings way out of spec that allows the rod to move at angles it shouldn't be moving at..

For oil squirters to just break off, as mavisky put it, you have a major problem within your motor..

 

[greathuskie]

car compression tested at 200-210 all the way across...and theres no way i can really take it, what makes you think the squirters werent just angled wrong? magnus has done a writeup on it that i read saying the vibration has caused them to break off, another reason why they just block them off with a bolt

 

[ArticNemesis]

What's the compression ratio on the pistons.?

 

[greathuskie]

What's the compression ratio on the pistons.?

9:1

block and head were both decked, but have a cometic metal hg