TurboV6Olds
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- Jan 24, 2010
Hoping someone could give some ideas about what might be wrong with my car. For some reason I can't keep the car together more than a year and I don't drive it that much. After the rebuild the car may have 1200 miles on it. Last fall I ran the car down the track and run my best time @ 11.60 but had smoke about half track. I had zero knock running 18 psi boost with 100% methanol injection at about 17 deg. of timing. The car seemed to run strong the entire run and even felt good on the way home. I drove the car the following weekend about 25 miles and everything seemed good then as well. My buddy called wanting me to take him for a ride the following weekend so I went out and started the car and was letting it warm up. I popped the hood making sure everything looked OK and sounded OK. I noticed a noise coming from the drivers side valve cover so I popped the K&N breather out of the valve cover and heard a spitting sound like a valve may be open or something causing compression to get back into the valve cover. I have not done a compression or leak down test yet. I will start working on it in the next few weeks just wanting to know if anyone had any ideas to make it easier to diagnose the problem? The car has Cometic head gaskets that have been used twice. The block has been decked and the heads have been cleaned up as well. The motor is stroked and bored .030. My machine guy says the motor has about a 9.8 - 10.0 : 1 compression ratio if this makes a difference.
Thanks in advance for you response,
Rick
Thanks in advance for you response,
Rick