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**asshanson** · 03-05-2009

Well, I guess what are the alternatives? A really bad leaking head? The car pushes a little coolant, but I've only filled it up once or twice in a year so thats not bad, so the headgasket isn't really blown. I just don't know what else it could be, lightly cracked block or something?

Symptoms:
1. 160 compression on 9.0:1 pistons - I'd expect 180-190
2. Burns 1qt oil every ~700 miles
3. Burns a TON of oil after a pull on decel or between gears
4. Crankcase pressurized, dipstick popped out once before I crushed the tube a bit
5. Ton of blowby into catch can, need to empty every oil change, also letting some oil into intake/turbo/piping

03-05-2009	#17
asshanson immune from paybans Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: West Des Moines Drives: poorly Posts: 4,358	Re: Make slowboy not so slow Well, I guess what are the alternatives? A really bad leaking head? The car pushes a little coolant, but I've only filled it up once or twice in a year so thats not bad, so the headgasket isn't really blown. I just don't know what else it could be, lightly cracked block or something? Symptoms: 1. 160 compression on 9.0:1 pistons - I'd expect 180-190 2. Burns 1qt oil every ~700 miles 3. Burns a TON of oil after a pull on decel or between gears 4. Crankcase pressurized, dipstick popped out once before I crushed the tube a bit 5. Ton of blowby into catch can, need to empty every oil change, also letting some oil into intake/turbo/piping Last edited by asshanson; 03-05-2009 at 11:27 AM..