newcomer, how much bigger snail?

welcome back Gary(from your what 8th suspension) jk. oh ok. the head was off while i was there so thought maybe it went boom. It looked nice, i really like that front bumper.

shrtstuff, you arnt stupid for buying that car. You never know things about these cars till after you buy them. Like mine was wrecked 3 years before me and i found out late. Its how you rebound from it and make it. Once you get this problem fixed you should be good.

 

got a ported fp red at a price i couldn't pass up. i had planned on getting more supporting mods before the turbo upgrade but why the hell wait I am just hoping i can tune out some of the lag with mivec since i am just getting into autocross. the stock is damn near at full spool at 3k

 

the red isnt that far off full spoll. it feels almost stock. i have a ported fp red on my 8

 

it'll be at about 4k with the red from what i have seen. How tight pungo was has me a bit concerned in regards to spool. I am going to ACU-4 sunday so that should raise my hopes since its supposed to be a much faster course. I am going to have a conservative tune on it since i'm still sporting the stock clutch. i'm not looking forward to changing that damn thing... so expensive since doing it right requires retrofitting a evo9 master clutch cylinder

 

started to take apart my engine, pulled the spark plugs and cyl 3 spark plug was covered in black gook. dirt grime fuel oil summin like that. looked down into that cylinder, looked like there was what looked like oil and clubs of other crap in there. going to take off the valve cover and replace the outter gasket on the valve cover. but will need to buy the spark hole gaskets. hoping that its that gasket thats messed up leaking that oil into the cylinder. all i can say is my weekends still full of mechanic learning ness

 

Im all about mixing the two together. Yet some are just too scared to do anything out of the norm.

Ill behave myself this time to not getting followed around by the mods and given the boot.

 

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I wouldnt think the valve cover gasket leaking would cause a lot of oil to get into your chamber (unless the spark plug was practically all most unscrewed).

 

Well with all the gook and **** on the plug ithats probly why it wasn't having any power. And idling rough. After I startd it ho it cleared out the cylinder of the **** down in there. However its back to making a ton of white smoke. Thinking of taking it to get a compression test done. But mitsu wants 95 bucks for it. Idk where else would do one for cheap in my area

 

Sry did a dbl post

 

do your own. autozone sells the compression tester

 

whos going out tonight if it stops raining?

 

I might see about goin up to Bass Pro, but the car isn't gonna be clean or anything, and that is if the the other half let's me go. I just put my wing back on too, from refinishing it from the sun and weather damage and it looks ten times better, not as great as it did from the factory but still alot better than I had planned.

 

Di the compression test and its not the head gasket. So piston ring?

 

i should make it out tonight. Fedex man just dropped off the red

 

that is gorgeous, I can't wait till I can get mine. it will be awhile but I will have one.