Ford service manual says a difference of 75 percent is bad. I'm at 82 but TWO cylinders are down. Would you guys go ahead and move forward with a short block and get it done or are my differences not that bad?
Ohhh no.... here are my compression numbers
1 - 250
2 - 245
3 - 242
4 - 250
5 - 250
6 - 245
7 - 205 Wet - 300
8 - 205 Wet - 300
Obviously 7 and 8 have some ring issues. What do I do now!
Im gonna do a full look over this weekend. Pull all the plugs and take a look and do the compression check. If it all checks out Im gonna keep on sending it!
I did some quick math.
I did 6 Sessions at 30 minutes each. 180 Minutes. 4 Minutes per lap so 45 LAPS total. Each Lap has 2 Long...
HAHA... I Just did a weekend long track day at Circuit of the Americas with my Whipple car. Second day last session, I got a CEL for cylinder 8 misfires and cank posistion sensor. Multiple laps that had WOT pulls to 150 Plus. Doing my compression test tonight. Could be a fun build!
Finally got the car on the rollers and I think I did ok?
Car has the Whipple stage 2 running the stock whipple tune. Have stainless long tubes with cats and stainless works retro catback.
Thoughts?
I've been running a Whipple Gen 2 Stage 2 Kit for about 5K miles now. It is the first car I have ever had that was boosted and I absolutely love it. I will tell you that I found out almost immediately that Nitto 555 G2s suck for boosted cars lol. I ended up switching to Pilot Sport 4S on all 4...
Why not just use a new stock balancer bolt? I've done a few OPG installs now and have not had any of the back out. Just followed the instructions in the service manual for reinstall.