Fun day at Moroso today 10-15-05

[SlowWhite]

Here's a link to my webpage that has my car info. (times slips are now added)
http://www.scottbarton.net/Brian/Eclipse%20Test%20Page/

As for my car:
I've swapped injectors, as well as changed which coil the #2 fires off of, changed spark plug wires, changed spark plugs, No matter what I've done the problem never went with what ever it was that I switched, it always stayed in the #2 cylinder.

Funny thing is Compression is the highest in the cylinder 180.

And you were right I thought I'd checked it. But reviewint it on my laptop shows I didn't have it enabled between shifts.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

The cylinder has to be firing somewhat. If it wasn't firing then it wouldn't be black. Black is usually from being excessively rich rich or oil fouling. A cylinder that isn't firing will have a plug that looks brand new, but is wet and covered with raw gasoline.

[SlowWhite]

I'd been wondering about that, I didn't know if the black was from it firing, with to much fuel, or if that was what happened when fuel just gets caked on there. It's just weird cause the 3 other cylinders are a very nice grey color.

[SlowWhite]

Well I installed the new T3 gasket yesterday and at the same time I took off the Valve cover to see if I could find anything else wrong that would be causing my problem with the #2...

And well I'm pretty sure it has to be Oil that's causing my problem. I found probably 5-7 cracks in my Valve cover, and 1 major one around my #2 Cylinder. the circular part that the spark plug wire top kind of fits against when you push it down, is almost crack a complete 360 degress around. There was also a hair line crack from 1 cam gear to the next along the spark plug well.

Needless to say I'm shocked that I don't have oil coming out everywhere. I don't know why I have so many cracks but it does.

[Onefast99gsx]

Interesting... how is the oil that is leaking, getting to the combustion chamber to cause the plug to blacken like that?

[SlowWhite]

I'm not sure but a lot of people have been suggesting oil could be a the cause, And intermitently I'd been getting smoke out my exhaust. First at Nopi's when I first Reved up the car to test the Stutterbox. And I had it happen again this last time around at the tracks when I started the car and then heard the exhaust leak, but since it only lasted for about 20 seconds. I didn't mention it. (only came out exhaust when I reved) and after the 4th blip of the throttle it stopped coming out) and hasn't happened since.