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Engine nitrous + hot plugs = death/melted plugs/dropped cylinder

Discussion in 'Powertrain' started by corolla81386, Mar 16, 2006.

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    nitrous + hot plugs = death/melted plugs/dropped cylinder

    i put a 50 shot wet kit on my 01 corolla and for some reason the last owner of the car had platinum instead of iridium plugs so they were too hot and one of them melted.. now one of the cylinders is dead after i changed all the spark plugs.. does anyone have any suggestions?
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    it has spark and im about to test compression.. i heard someone else here ran a 50 shot on their corolla with success.. same year
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    The first cylinders compression is at 75 when it should be between 145 and 218 and the other 3 are fine
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    it looks like its the piston rings
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    sonsofwisdom I can fix it

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    yeah...don't put nitrous on a stock vehicle you have not thoroughly inspected yourself and built to handle that...

    other than that...possible hole in piston? rings shot? Who knows...obviously car wasn't meant to handle that and wasn't built to so there's no telling until you take the head off and look...or you could get a boroscope...it's a fiber optic lens with a flash light on it that bends...that way you can sorta inspect the cylinder walls without removing the head...drop the oil pan and look from underneath...a lot easier than taking the head off...

    Wait wait...dead as in no spark or no compression??? Cause that's completly different and the diags require completly different routes.

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