my friend just bought a 97 type r motor from jdmmotorsports or whatever the site is, they said it was compression and leakdown tested etc, we changed all fluids, pumps, belts etc. we put it in his hatchback this weekend and today it started smokeing and loading up plugs, did a compression test and these are the numbers we got #1 - 196 #2 - 185 #3 - 176 #4 - 185, so my question is what should the compression be in a 97 type r motor with supposidely less than 45k kilometers and is the smokeing due to the rings? doest smoke at idle, on when WOT thanks in advance for your help

 

need to know, guys?

 

need to know soon, have 30 days to return, this time is up by friday

 

should be over 200 if I'm not mistaken... something definately looks wrong, esp w/ the #3 cylinder. Do a search in the Type-R forum and they should tell you... 210-215 is normal for a B18C1 (GSR)

 

Third cyl looks kinda low. Did you do it in that order? Sometimes a low battery will give false results. The closer the number the better. Squirt a couple of drops of oil in the low cyl and retry the test. Did it go up? Then your rings are worn.

 

hmmm, oh well, time to rip it out and send it back, if there supposed to be above 200 something is wrong

 

i got 210ish on my 100k gsr motor...and a type r has a higher cr, id expect higher!!! dam japs beating the **** out their motors! watch out for those restocking fee's...and you must like swapping motors...wanna come do mine while i watch and drink some beers? haha good luck

 

while you watch and drink beer? no no, you do that while your doing the swap yourself well, i have to take it out tomorrow then and notify the company that its coming back and for what reason

 

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When a motor has alot of miles it usually has lots of carbon buildup and that can actually make the compression numbers higher.

 

i thought stock GSR's should be at 175?

 

My 98 B18C got 225 across the board, send that **** back