i have a stock block gsr that was boosted and then about 3 days later i noticed smoke cover form the vavle cover breather... so i read some treads on h-t and was told that my rings or ringland was gone.. or it could be also my vavle seals... what can it be?
compression was as follows. cylinder1=120,2= 120,3=120,and4= 60
could it be rings? ringlands? or vavel seals... alot of smoke is coming out fro the breather...

 

great now me and that mad scientist have to rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried!!

j/k your ringland(s) is/are cracked in #4. Rings dont go in 3 days and neither do valve seals

 

yep really busted ringlands. 4 is definitley toast. the others a low as well, but that could be the comp tester or the way you did the test
sorry

 

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j/k your ringland(s) is/are cracked in #4. Rings dont go in 3 days and neither do valve seals</TD></TR></TABLE>

this guy knows plenty about it, right dave!

JK

 

ive only busted one piston's ringlands, and that was almost 5 years ago
the current ones seem to be holding the current boost level...i dont know how but they are

 

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the current ones seem to be holding the current boost level...i dont know how but they are </TD></TR></TABLE>

i wasnt meaning you, i mean with all the turbo garbage we have seen in tampa. haha

 

did u boost untunned? its not worth it.

 

ringland is gone..same thing happened to me, sucks

 

boost was on tuned with crome. crap time to rebuild bottom end and boost more!

 

o ya... my car dosent seem to be buring oil... if anything the oil level seems normal like the way before i was boosted... i check about every 2 days and it seems to be the same level.

 

same happened to me with my stock block gsr. I was boosted for two years though. Started it up one morining and had a lot of smoke coming from the breather. tore it down the next day and found #1 and #4 ringlands busted.

Time for a rebuild

 

Normally I would say a little smoke out the breather is perfectly fine, but in your case the ringlands are blown in #4.

 

what would happen if i was to be boosted again ? will my ringlands blow up and my car die? cuz it starts up perfectly fine and drives fine but a little sluggish.

 

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If you're talking about boosting on the blown ringlands it will only be a matter of time before the car will probably be undriveable and do even more damage.

 

Once the ring lands have gone the ring can be trapped and ar not supported. I know, my ringlands went and i carried on driving it and hitting boost then got loads of smoke out the back and it had smashed the rings. Luckily no damage to the sleeves.

 

i guess i wont be feeling boost for a while until i rebuild... thanks guys