BLKCRX

Well for those that remember around 3 weeks ago I ran into some trouble after doing a lot of street racing run’s on my stock b16a2 engine with 7psi.. and started to blow a lot of white smoke out of my breather.

Anyway riped apart the engine today to install the new pistons / rods / get everything balanced and what not.. and the head gasket looked perfect… and so were the rings….. but on no3 piston, there was a very very very small hairline crack. This was the only defect we found in the whole engine.. so yeah it must have been causing the problem.

I don’t care that I broke a piston.. because I have new ones.. its just weird everything else looked perfect.. apart from the fact. Maybe I was running on 3 cylinders bc maybe a spark plug had failed….because no3 plug was very wet, and so was the carbon deposit on the values wet with fuel…so yeah maybe the hairline crack was causing this.. or maybe the plug had go bang… but yeah who cares.. BRING ON MY NEW ENGINE !!!

Regards James

turbocoupe

. . .and that's all that matter! Happy boosting!

Flamenco-T

well, if you wanna feel better..
my cyl # 2's compression was 90 while all others is 220...and cylinder # 2 is usually the last one to fail...

I had a blown ring...out the turbo and now back to NA...it's been over 3 months now...

at least you have a new pistons and etc...

X2BOARD

No turbo.... ick.... I'm living that nightmare right now too. I feel your pain Flamenco.... All motor... lower than stock CR