{"id":4785,"date":"2010-10-04T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2010-10-05T08:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:31:52","slug":"wakita-san-said-its-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/04\/wakita-san-said-its-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakita-san said It’s OK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been practically 2 years since I had my engine changed. And since then, I haven’t been upgrading it at all. I’ve just been maintaining it while I help my credit card recover from its injury. (u_u) So, fast forward many moons, and I’m wondering how the condition of the engine is. Over the weekend, I decided to pay a visit to Wakita-san for a little leak-down testing. Why did I decide to get a leak-down test? Well, the car itself drives fine — the motor basically feels perfect to me. But I wanted to have it inspected before I decide to do a few fast-mods to it. (^_^) There’s no sense in modding the engine if it’s going to cause it to blow up the next day. Then my side pocket will REALLYbe hurting (-_-)”‘<\/p>\n

So, good news! The leak-down test said I had about 7% leak in one cylinder, 10% in another two, and around 20% in the final one. Not bad for a used engine… The 20% leak didn’t sound so good to me, but Wakita-san said it was decent enough to throw a few small mods at while I save up for an upgrade rebuild in the future. Compression was a little low as well, but not bad!<\/p>\n

Good news indeed! So, what’s next? Maybe a bigger interfooler? Maybe I can finally have that 4.3 final drive installed? A SARD coolant breather<\/a> would be a nice thing to have… But then I’d have to replace my stock clutch-fan with electric ones to free up some room in the engine bay. Anyways… stay tuned for my next pay check and we’ll see what happens! LOL! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

On a side-note, I’d just like to say that gifting your car some money is almost always money well-spent… as long as you buy good parts. I drive my car every day, and I’m constantly reminded that everything I’ve given to the Emerald Weapon was worth it. Boo yah! LoL<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Wakita-san and Andrew for helping me out on the weekend. Let this be a lesson to you other shops! Open on Saturdays because it’s the only time us normal working people can make it over! :p<\/p>\n

-M.<\/p>\n

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It’s been practically 2 years since I had my engine changed. And since then, I haven’t been upgrading it at all. I’ve just been maintaining it while I help my credit card recover from its injury. (u_u) So, fast forward many moons, and I’m wondering how the condition of the engine is. Over the weekend, I decided to pay a visit to Wakita-san for a little leak-down testing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[539,532,535,536,537,529,530,63,528,119,12,534,533,531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}