MY compression test results!

[nissanfanatic]

Not every KA-T pops... I've had mine running for about a year and a half, the last three months at 300whp+, and I just rolled the odometer over to 140,000 miles today. Its sitting at 140,001 right now.lol

[GEO]

I jsut rolled 83K .. :-(

[nismofly]

turned 81k on the sohc on the way to store it...

its that pintotech tunning im telling you

youre making mine just as good then right?

that is if i can ever afford all the parts

lol geo's gettin all ancy to install my stuff, i think he wants me to have a turbo as much as i do

[Chezedik]

Sunny, your avatar is an asian chick.

[sunnys14]

thats me

[GEO]

Haha I am getting YOU ansy to do the kit and ****.. By the time you actually do it.. I might be riding around in a 328IS w/ AA S/c kit.. ****.. I say that OUT loud?

[GEO]

Sunny, I thought you were a guy?

[Chezedik]

I guess I already spent all this money on my turbo gear, I'll just have to follow through.

[nismofly]

if your riding around in that in a year and a half geo ill cry

this thread reminds me i still have to do a compression test on my engine

[Florida240sx]

Forget compression check.Let boost kill the engine then throw in the spare while you rebuild your orginal.

[nissanfanatic]

Boost doesn't kill engines... So you aren't "letting boost kill your engine". More liek letting an ongoing problem kill your engine and then allowing it to begin killing your spare, and pretty soon onto yoru built engine.

Sounds like a virus to me...

[Craving4Boost]

Boost does wear out the engine faster than normal...it has a wide range of how much dependin on lots of things but yes it does....cant forget that fact

turbos arent miracle workers...althought it may seem like it

[nissanfanatic]

If you consider it dying at say 230,000 miles instead of 250,000 miles "Putting more wear on the engine", then yes, sure...

But if you are killing engines within a 2 year period on 7psi, boost isn't killing your engine... Plenty of us have proven that the KA doesn't wear out very fast at all with boost applied...

[nismofly]

plus the fact that i really dont want to kill an engine thats 17 years old and has 81k miles on it

to say im going overkill on this is putting it mildly

[sunnys14]

im in the process of pulling the head. how can i really tell if the pistons are damaged with the head off? anyone know?

[nissanfanatic]

Pretty sure that piston woudl be abnormally black due to incomplete combustion. Look for hairline cracks along the edges and lateral grooves on the cylinder walls.