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Hi All,

Well bad news. I was on my way home from school tonight to polish out the
body panel I sprayed this week in preparation for carrying the senior class
prince and princess for this week's homecoming parade. I wasn't horsing
around, just went to full boost for a few secs from 55-75 and hmmm there's
an odd smell...must be the truck up in the slow lane. Nope, it's me blowing
smoke down the freeway.

I lift the hood to find the dipstick is blown out and the smoke is from the
oil all over the turbo. Good news! Probably a bad PCV valve right?
(Denying to myself that I could hear a distinct tapping that wasn't there
before). To make a long story short Harry and I ran a compression test
after noticing the number one spark plug was blacker than the others.

Cylinder 4 - 180
Cylinder 3 - 175
Cylinder 2 - 165
Cylinder 1 - 80!

So a bit of oil in 1 and I get 145....looks like I get to redo my bottom
end.....

I call Bill C. and talk it over and he gives me the hard sell on Wisecos.
Just kidding! All he said was 9.0 to 1 and I'm chomping to put them in.
Tami says they won't get any more till the end of October, so I'm hoping
like heck somebody on the list has a set that is sitting around for a
"future job". I'd replace them with the late October delivery set....
anyone,...anyone... Bueller?

Any info or donations (;-P) appreciated!
Gary
hakuna-miata '91 silverstone turbo IV.2 12psi
pacificsites.net/~hakuna/miata.html


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Depending on how much power you want to produce it would be prudent to
consider 8:1 if you want to run massive amounts of boost. You might as well
go with a 1 or 2 mm overbore (probably 1 to be safe.)

Mark

>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Well bad news. I was on my way home from school tonight to polish out the
> body panel I sprayed this week in preparation for carrying the senior class
> prince and princess for this week's homecoming parade. I wasn't horsing
> around, just went to full boost for a few secs from 55-75 and hmmm there's
> an odd smell...must be the truck up in the slow lane. Nope, it's me blowing
> smoke down the freeway.
>
> I lift the hood to find the dipstick is blown out and the smoke is from the
> oil all over the turbo. Good news! Probably a bad PCV valve right?
> (Denying to myself that I could hear a distinct tapping that wasn't there
> before). To make a long story short Harry and I ran a compression test
> after noticing the number one spark plug was blacker than the others.
>
> Cylinder 4 - 180
> Cylinder 3 - 175
> Cylinder 2 - 165
> Cylinder 1 - 80!
>
> So a bit of oil in 1 and I get 145....looks like I get to redo my bottom
> end.....
>
> I call Bill C. and talk it over and he gives me the hard sell on Wisecos.
> Just kidding! All he said was 9.0 to 1 and I'm chomping to put them in.
> Tami says they won't get any more till the end of October, so I'm hoping
> like heck somebody on the list has a set that is sitting around for a
> "future job". I'd replace them with the late October delivery set....
> anyone,...anyone... Bueller?
>
> Any info or donations (;-P) appreciated!
> Gary
> hakuna-miata '91 silverstone turbo IV.2 12psi
> pacificsites.net/~hakuna/miata.html
>
>
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