Re:79 Spider Veloce

[Regan Dale Copple <copple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony,
 
On  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 Anthony Rondeau at rondeau@domain.elided wrote:

> I have a 79 spider with two adjacent cylinders giving me a low compression
> reading.  The car is detonating on acceleration and decelaration.  My wet
> readings are higher than the dry readings. My question is... What should the
> compression be?(aprox.) any feedback is much apreciated.

	If your wet readings are higher than your dry readings that is
commonly indicative of worn piston rings.  You say the car is detonating,
where exactly is this happening?  Tailpipe?  Engine?  Or is the whole car
just blowing up? ;^)  My point is that detonating is just too vague a
term, you need to be more specific.  Is the car knocking on acceleration
and then popping in the tailpipe when decelerating?  If so this is
perfectly normal, you need a tune-up or a higher grade in your tank to
correct the knocking, I'd keep the tailpipe pop if I were you, my 79
spider does the same thing.  I also get some knock when I goose the gas
too severely.   I'm thinking of trying some 104 Octane Boost, I've had
good results with it in the past in reducing or eliminating knocking
entirely.  Plus it helps boost the performance in my Montreal, I once blew
the shit out of two Ferraris (A Mondial going west on Santa Monica and
turning onto Wilshire, and earlier that day a Testarossa going north on
Robertson being driven by some clueless Korean dude) in one day after I
threw a can of that into the tank.  I believe that the compression for the
Spider should be around 9 to 1 (approximately).  I hope this helps, maybe
the resident guru's can shine their wisdom upon us, amen.

						Typing with five fingers,
						Regan Copple
						79 Spider-black
				(coming soon)-->72 Montreal-silver
						73 Montreal-black

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
					-Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

------------------------------