My sig info is for my previous MSP. I haven't updated it yet. I had it for eight years, and that car was as close to perfect as a car can get. No issues and compression was still 190-195 in every cylinder at 150k miles. When I bought my 2nd MSP with only 110k miles on it, I expected a lot better than the crap I'm having to deal with now. At 114k mi. the turbo went out. No boost and the car started just pouring light blue oil smoke when driven. After getting screwed on the deal the first time around, I finally get a replacement turbo from a salvage yard in Utah this week. This turbo is supposed to have 132k mi. on it and has a 30 day guarantee. I get the car back Tuesday and it's still smoking some. I figured there's residual oil in the intake plumbing. The boost doesn't seem to come up very strong with the new turbo, and the mechanic told me that the wastegate on the new one didn't look like the wastegate (factory?) on the old turbo. Didn't know this til after it was installed. I haven't been able to get a boost gauge on it yet to see exactly what it's doing. I live on a mountain, and now during daily driving on mostly level ground, it's not smoking. However, coming up the mountain it pours out clouds of oil smoke, and I can tell that the turbo isn't doing much of anything. My first MSP and this one used to pull strong up the mountain and the boost came up quickly and stayed up under load. Not now. Even on level ground I can barely tell it has a turbo now, and it doesn't set off the BOV like it used to. I want to note that I did figure out that the previous owner was way past his oil change interval after I'd been driving the car for a while. The engine may have been treated like crap. I don't know. I do know that his choice of mods was less than desireable and I'm missing my old MSP soooo badly right now.
I will be doing a compression test this weekend. I did one just a few weeks ago and was seeing 160-170psi, but couldn't check one of the cylinders due to a gasket stuck in the plug access hole. The mechanic got that out for me during the turbo swap and I'll check it again across the board. I have to wonder if I'm going to find really low compression on that untested cylinder. Other than that, does anyone have any ideas for a car with low boost and/or power, and smokes like hell when under a consistent, heavy load like going up the mountain? I will be beyond pissed if it turns out this engine is shot when buying a car with such relatively low miles. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas. I will post the info on the compression numbers and boost numbers and behavior just as soon as I can get them.
I will be doing a compression test this weekend. I did one just a few weeks ago and was seeing 160-170psi, but couldn't check one of the cylinders due to a gasket stuck in the plug access hole. The mechanic got that out for me during the turbo swap and I'll check it again across the board. I have to wonder if I'm going to find really low compression on that untested cylinder. Other than that, does anyone have any ideas for a car with low boost and/or power, and smokes like hell when under a consistent, heavy load like going up the mountain? I will be beyond pissed if it turns out this engine is shot when buying a car with such relatively low miles. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas. I will post the info on the compression numbers and boost numbers and behavior just as soon as I can get them.