At least I believe so.
I got the cam sprockets finally installed and the timing dialed in.
To my big surprise the engine started with minor nudging. It is running a bit lean in idle (leaner than before the cam sprocket work) but I would say it may be incidental or could be the cam timing was a bit off before leading to different mix requirements. That is easy to fix.
However....
- after starting the exhaust spew quite a bit of white smoke for a minute. It did not really smell like coolant but it had been sitting for 2 months and I would not know what else that could be. It was pretty warm outside and I doubt it was just water vapor.
- I measured compression warm at 155 / 145 / 160 / 180 and compared it to the values after the rebuild 5 years ago (was 208/210/205/212). Not sure what to think about that. The car has done only 15-20k road miles since then, very little track time.
I am beginning to wonder if I may have a leaky head gasket or a cracked cylinder head. I guess I will do a leakdown test and see if I can learn more from that and probably take the head off. Sigh...
I got the cam sprockets finally installed and the timing dialed in.
To my big surprise the engine started with minor nudging. It is running a bit lean in idle (leaner than before the cam sprocket work) but I would say it may be incidental or could be the cam timing was a bit off before leading to different mix requirements. That is easy to fix.
However....
- after starting the exhaust spew quite a bit of white smoke for a minute. It did not really smell like coolant but it had been sitting for 2 months and I would not know what else that could be. It was pretty warm outside and I doubt it was just water vapor.
- I measured compression warm at 155 / 145 / 160 / 180 and compared it to the values after the rebuild 5 years ago (was 208/210/205/212). Not sure what to think about that. The car has done only 15-20k road miles since then, very little track time.
I am beginning to wonder if I may have a leaky head gasket or a cracked cylinder head. I guess I will do a leakdown test and see if I can learn more from that and probably take the head off. Sigh...
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