![]() 02/17/2015 at 12:21 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
youtube kinjad my thumbnail D:
![]() 02/17/2015 at 12:37 |
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I take it this is your new purchase that is without exhaust parts?
![]() 02/17/2015 at 13:53 |
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That is correct. The video actually tones it down. In real life I have a hard time thinking while driving this.
![]() 02/17/2015 at 14:14 |
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my civic has a mufflerless exhaust, but its designed that way, I've driven without an exhaust pst the cat, and that was simply intolerable
![]() 02/17/2015 at 15:34 |
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Yeah, it's a million times worse when it terminates UNDER the car like this.
![]() 02/17/2015 at 16:30 |
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how does it sound at WOT @ 5k+ rpm?
![]() 02/17/2015 at 17:36 |
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Loud. Also smoke starts pouring through the shift boot because that's about where the exhaust ends. Better have your windows rolled down.
![]() 02/18/2015 at 09:43 |
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the years have not been kind to your rings huh?
![]() 02/18/2015 at 09:49 |
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Piston rings? Because if that's what you're referring to, then no. Cylinders 1, 3, and 4 are at 125psi, and cylinder 2 is at 50psi. I put in a slightly-too-long spark plug to raise the compression in that cylinder slightly, which helped surprisingly, and I'm going to use some snake oil "fix low compression" engine oil additive because I have nothing to lose by doing so. After the spark plug thing, Cylinder 2 doesn't misfire as much any more but it's still a weak fire.
![]() 02/18/2015 at 10:13 |
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if you've got oil smoke in your exhaust, the other option is valve seals going bad, magic oil might stand a chance of helping with that.
you should do a leak down test if you can.
I have a hard time believing that a bigger spark plug fixed anything, I can believe that a new spark plug would improve things though.
![]() 02/18/2015 at 10:34 |
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Valve stem seals are brand new. We put some oil in the cylinder and the car idled brilliantly until the oil burned off.
![]() 02/18/2015 at 11:44 |
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what's the story on that, it got a new head recently?