CallSign_Cobra
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What’s up everyone. Ok so this may be a long winded post. I’ll try and keep it short. Thanks guys for reading if you do.
So I bought my 96’ Cobra a few months ago. Car was a 1 owner and has 15k original miles. From what I know the engine is stock with a Vortech Supercharger. No other internal mods done. When I first went to go test drive the car it had a slight tap under the drivers side valve cover (nearest the firewall) that has gone away from time to time when the car heats up to operating temp.
So a few weeks ago I took the car to get the tune checked and upgrade a few things to bring it up to date. The gentleman who I brought it to said the car has low compression in cylinders 6,7,& 8. (75,89,75) Now the dude is extremely knowledgeable and has a great reputation. However I’d like some input on what it may be. He’s saying could be a cracked piston. Maybe stuck rings.
Now the car sat from 2016-2020 when I purchased it. It was on a tender and started from time to time but not much from what the previous owner said. And it wasn’t started at all for the last year.
Car only smoke from time to time out of the tailpipes under full throttle. Nothing while idling and has plenty of power. It’ll hesitate every now and then but for the most part it runs solid. Had some blowby where some smoke comes out of the oil cap when removed.
Any suggestions? Thank you guys ahead of time for helping me out.
So I bought my 96’ Cobra a few months ago. Car was a 1 owner and has 15k original miles. From what I know the engine is stock with a Vortech Supercharger. No other internal mods done. When I first went to go test drive the car it had a slight tap under the drivers side valve cover (nearest the firewall) that has gone away from time to time when the car heats up to operating temp.
So a few weeks ago I took the car to get the tune checked and upgrade a few things to bring it up to date. The gentleman who I brought it to said the car has low compression in cylinders 6,7,& 8. (75,89,75) Now the dude is extremely knowledgeable and has a great reputation. However I’d like some input on what it may be. He’s saying could be a cracked piston. Maybe stuck rings.
Now the car sat from 2016-2020 when I purchased it. It was on a tender and started from time to time but not much from what the previous owner said. And it wasn’t started at all for the last year.
Car only smoke from time to time out of the tailpipes under full throttle. Nothing while idling and has plenty of power. It’ll hesitate every now and then but for the most part it runs solid. Had some blowby where some smoke comes out of the oil cap when removed.
Any suggestions? Thank you guys ahead of time for helping me out.