Is it rebuild time already?

[elford_tim]

After the bad experience buying an Elford Turbo with a supposedly good engine earlier last year I\'m now insisting that any car I\'m interested in has a compression test first - I\'d rather waste the thirty to forty quid that costs then have to pay a couple of thousand straight away...


Anyway, the latest set of lucky numbers to come through are 6.4-6.9 on the front rotor and 5.5-5.8 on the rear. I can live with the numbers on the front rotor but I\'ve got my doubts about the values on the back...

Anybody care to hazard a guess how close to a rebuild this engine is? FC Turbo II with about 70k on the clock, presumed to be the original engine.

[maximtaylor]

You\'ll know when the time comes! One morning it\'ll flood, you\'ll get it going, then it\'ll flood a couple of days later. At least doing it at that stage will keep the costs down!

I\'m guessing you\'re not far off

[mireck 12a]

Originally posted by elford_tim
After the bad experience buying an Elford Turbo with a supposedly good engine earlier last year I\'m now insisting that any car I\'m interested in has a compression test first - I\'d rather waste the thirty to forty quid that costs then have to pay a couple of thousand straight away...


Anyway, the latest set of lucky numbers to come through are 6.4-6.9 on the front rotor and 5.5-5.8 on the rear. I can live with the numbers on the front rotor but I\'ve got my doubts about the values on the back...

Anybody care to hazard a guess how close to a rebuild this engine is? FC Turbo II with about 70k on the clock, presumed to be the original engine.

Rears are almost alway more worn then the fronts. The 1 bar difference is just into mazda specs.

But 30-40 pounds for a compressiontest? wow, i need to adjust my price for a compressiontest (17.40 pounds,25 euro\'s and that\'s with a digital compressiontester and done twice):confused:

[Cycaduk]

Hi, just had my 12a checked by Pip at WGT.


4.2,4.2 3.5 on the front and 4.5, 4.6, 3.6 on the back.

so its time for a new engine.

But, although she is now a real pig to start, once going everything is fine apart from the fact that I cant get her to idle below 1800 rpm. does the compression improve with rpm?