That was not Coop's advice. Coop's advice was to fix the motor before doing anything else.
Of course, his goals (start from a known good motor so I don't come around and bug him for service because his turbo install blew up my engine) are not necessarily the same as mine (cheap, fast & reliable - I pick all 3). The suggestion that my motor would probably do fine on low boost for a while came from some folks on another mailing list. I think what I am going to do is this: - seafoam the motor - buy or borrow a compression tester and test once more - find someone with a leakdown gauge that is nearby (this is no offense to Coop, I just don't want to drive all the way to Maple Valley for a leakdown test) and try once more to see if I can confirm the numbers - post the results back to the list one last time - ignore all your advice, turbo my motor, and see how long it goes before it blows ;) I don't quite understand how the numbers are so bad when I'm not using any noticeable amount of oil. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Bryan Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should add that if the engine actually is healthy, boost away. What I > didn't get is the advice--which I assume was Coop's--that, "hey you've got a > crappy motor--boost it now and rebuild later!" If the motor's not crappy as > Bill is pointing out, then it all makes more sense. > > -Bryan > >
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