Huge setback!
September 2013
We got my car running and it is a real screamer. We keep the tune conservative with a rich mixture and not to much advance so I was looking forward to how it would run with a fine tune. After a short time the engine just did not run right, poor idle and erratic. I noticed that I was using gas like there was no tomorrow. To add insult to injury, the car started to smoke horribly with blue smoke. Due to the poor idle and the smoke, I pulled the plugs to do a compression check. When I turned it over to check #1, gas sprayed out of #6!
Sure enough, the #6 injector was stuck open! I guessed that I had broken a piston or who knows what. We checked some more and found the turbo's shaft was sloppy (a brand new Holset). So, I ordered new bushings and will install them tomorrow.
I wonder if the contaminated oil (gas) caused the turbo to wear out or what? Any recommendation for the size of the oil restrictor?
Chuck
September 2013
We got my car running and it is a real screamer. We keep the tune conservative with a rich mixture and not to much advance so I was looking forward to how it would run with a fine tune. After a short time the engine just did not run right, poor idle and erratic. I noticed that I was using gas like there was no tomorrow. To add insult to injury, the car started to smoke horribly with blue smoke. Due to the poor idle and the smoke, I pulled the plugs to do a compression check. When I turned it over to check #1, gas sprayed out of #6!
Sure enough, the #6 injector was stuck open! I guessed that I had broken a piston or who knows what. We checked some more and found the turbo's shaft was sloppy (a brand new Holset). So, I ordered new bushings and will install them tomorrow.
I wonder if the contaminated oil (gas) caused the turbo to wear out or what? Any recommendation for the size of the oil restrictor?
Chuck
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