92hatchattack

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ok ... so here it is ... before i took the head off (crx si) i had....

#1- 200
#2-200
#3-200
#4-150 .................. my brother said it was blowing white smoke out of the car, but i never saw it ran to see if it was white or white/blue ...

well, i took the head off and cleaned off the head gasket real nice .... and i got myself a 3 ply y8 headgasket and torqued it down to 50lbs, via the helm book ........ now i havent tried to start the car, but my ------- compression is fucked!!!!!!

#1 - 140
#2 - 120
#3- 200
#4- 155

WHAT THE ---- DID I DO WRONG

crx2fast

are you sure you did the test right? you probly did somthing wrong, or forgot something. was your battery fully charged?

at least #3 is still good :P

88crxSi

put a teaspoon of oil in each cyl and test again.

92hatchattack

well compresion test are pretty easy .... and im sure i did it right, i checked it twice ....

isnt the teaspoon of oil thing just to check out if the rings are blown??

cause i had fine compression in those first 3 cylinders before i started ....

OnYx

you sure you dident bend any valves or anything when you put the head back on?

sohcrxsi

your timing might be fucked

Semnos

reusing head bolts?? If so torque it down to 65lb....no more then 75lb

92hatchattack

i am reusing headbolts ... i just torqued down to 60lbs with no real compression increases ..... do you think i should go farther 70lbs?

Semnos

I had 120-90-90-120 on my engine after putting a head with a fresh gasket I retorqued it to 60...bumped only a few psi I got it torque to 72 lb. 200 psi all accross
But the engine is dead now...Rod went thru the block...hole in the block at the front. And the engine was NA think it was the unbalanced shaved flywheel that didn't really fit the old ZC with the pilot bearing, cause the old ZC doesn't have a groove for the pilot bearing and my pulley old school pulley that doesn't have a harmonic dampner.

92hatchattack

damn ... it really helped that much heh well i guess ill give it a shot then .. and see what happens ... ill get back to ya on that one tonight.....