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Stizzyflip611

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Nov 21, 2003
Howell, New Jersey
hey guys,

i've got a 92 plymouth laser awd 5sp with 86k miles on it. the car has been sitting around for almost a year now ( the couple months that ive had it and the previous owner). the car ran perfectly fine before, no smoke outta the exhaust, no leakin 14b, a little litfer tick but nothin major. the car needed an ecu. i got one from mitsu graveyard, but i tried to start the car and it wouldla fire up, just crank and crank and crank...... so i narrowed it down to a fuel problem. opened up the trap fuel door and saw there was plenty fuel so i figured it was the pump or the filter. i changed out the filter for a new oem and dropped in a walbro 255. then it happened, i got the dsm bug and started wantin everything. so now the car has full suspension, full exhaust on the way, blah blah blah blah, read the profile. i also have an evo16g on the way to mount up to the cast sbr mani i bought. anyway, wut are the chances that the car will be fine after sittin around and gettin worked on for a year? cuz i dont have the money for a complete engine rebuild rite now. when primin the turbo should i lube up the pistons through the spark plugs holes do they dont score the cylinder walls? i plan on runnin the car through many oil changes before its on the road.

no i havent done a compression test since i got the car but the previous owner said he did one about a year ago and it was good then.

pleae help me out.

thanx alot

Andrew
 
Should run fine... I'd siphon out that gas and replace it. That's the only thing I had to do after mine sat for about 11 months. It wouldn't crank over, so I topped off the tank (it was almost empty) with some new gas, and replaced the plugs, and she's got about 1000 miles on her now :D

(and my bottom end has 176K on it)
 
just unplug the injectors and plug wires and crank it a couple of times not one long time just one to two turns at a time. then plug everything back in and you should be good to go
 
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