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Compression/HG broblem need help!!!!!!!

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Slippi84

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Jun 8, 2005
Cinnaminson, New Jersey
Ok i pretty much had intake/exaust boost gauge, a/f gauge and boost controller. I had been runnin the car and doing pretty good but i needed more like we all do. So i do my reaserch and seem to here the number 16psi pretty consistantly as the max for stock fuel system with exasut and intake. So i hit an abandoned road to test and tune for 16 psi. Well you guys know how sensitive the Bleeders are, ended up jumpn over 16 on my third pass and went up to 18psi but nothing bad happes no fuel cut no noises feels pretty good actually. So i leave it there like a dumb a$$ and go that same night to try out how she runs. I launch like crazy ad it pulls a lot better for about 4-5 ruus. All of a sudden my idle gets rel shitty. When i start driving it's fine nothing bad still got that nice power but then clutch starts to give out but that's a roblem for another tale. I park the car becaus the clutch is that bad and when i go to start it up it idlesures then dies. i have to give it gas to keep her going. We get her back to the house and begin to put all the stuff you see in my profile on the car. Start off with the obvious for drivablity clutch and flywheel then go to cams and valve spring. After we get those two going we try and start her up to see where we are. I shit you not my engine jumps like it wants to get out of the engine bay and run down the road like those comercials and it is makin the most god awful noise when you rev or anything. It is so off pitch I have never heard anything like that. Now wobviously we're gonna do a compression test but I want to know if anyone has had this happen to them and if they can give me the inside scoup on what it probably is. We def thing think it could be HG so i just ordered a MLS HG with overhaul kit worse case cenario I have a reliable HG and good seals to scratch off the possible problems. Now We didn't change the cams seals( I know should always change seals when you do stuff like that) Now to the big problem, car is leakin oil out around where the head meets the block (HG LAND) and it only does it when the car is running. Does all this scream HG or is it just me. Fill me in guys and please no well it could be this go off some kinda experience on this one i'm not trying to replace whole bottom end over a bad gasket so don't go get a new engine and a stroker and what not. Thanks guys. :dsm:
 
ok...
1. redo that run-on book into some simblance of a sentance structure.
2. SPELL CHECK.

after that maybe I can actually pick out what you need help with...
 
CHeck if any of your intercooler pipes popped off, that happens to me all the time and the car feels like its dying. It specially happend to me when I went 18 psi by accident onces and POP! Goes the pipe.
 
Now since were on this subject, I am having the same problem for my 95 eclipse RS Non-Turbo, it leaks oil while running, around the headgasket, when i start it, it dies, and have to give it gas to keep it idling, and it also idles very hard, maybe about 500-600 rpm, and sometimes it will die while setting at a redlight, stopsign, etc.

And my biggest worry is when I'm driving down the road, I loss maybe 50+ hp, then it comes back. It does not do it at any certain RPM. Its like pressing your foot on the accelerator, and releasing a second later!

I put in new spark plugs and wires, there was oil in the spark plug compartment, I think i may need to change the oil gasket! the spark plugs had carbon build up on them. Do I need to change the oil gasket?

My performance mods are high-flow straight-through cat, muffler, cold air intake. Shitty job!

Have I ragged on it? Yes, a top speed of 125mph, with the cold air intake and muffler!

I have changed the clutch assembly, every bearing and gear in the transmission.
 
My bad about the run on and spelling thing but come on man your a new member to your no exactly a wiseman so understand where i'm comin from here and help out your fellow DSM tuner. I will pay it back one day. Karama is real man.
 
Sorry about my rambling last night this is the basic facts of what's happening



1. Ran 18psi on stock 14b with no suporting fuel mods (dumb) with just intake and 3" exaust.

2. Ran the car for about 6 real hard all out runs then idle became ruff and surged. When car was moving nothing bad was happening.(Did not have datalogger at this time so nothing notciable bad was happening)

3. Clutch got fried from 6k+ launches(sooooooooooo addicting) let the car sit

4. Came back to get the car towed cause the clutch was that bad and the car wouln't idle on it's own. It would die off. You had to give it gas to keeo it going. After about 2 minutes of keeping it a live it would idle but it would be holding on for dear life to running.

5. Start puttin in the stuff I have in my profile after clutch/flywheel install did the cam valve spring install with the zex spark plugs too.

6. Start the car up same problem with idle except it is amplified by what almost looks like detonation due to it's extremely violent nature. This is only at idle I haven't even tried to drive it yet.

7. Car leaks oil when running at a descent pace out from right underneath the alternator braket is but underneath around the headgasket are.

Ok these are the things I did wrong now it's a mater of how to fix it now that I am wiser now and have learned my lesson.

1. Turned up boost w/o suporting mods both drivetrain and fuel
2. Didn't change the Cam seals after cam instalation
3. Put on performance parts before trouble shooting my idle problem


Now fellow DSM guys what do I do now?????????
 
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