StefanoP
Member
Dear all,
I was wondering how come that the flap of my FSI was repeatedly blocked due to oil vapours and finally I asked my mechanics to check the compression ratio of the cylinders. As was probably obvious, the compression on this 90.000 miles engine is very low in all cylinders, (from 5,4:1 to 7,8:1...) proving that this little car was abused by previous owners so much that even its engine's innards are worn out. Rebuilding the engine is out of the question because of the high costs, Audi would not provide a 'light' engine if not for a huge pile of money and I'm wondering what to do now. The FSI drives well with the ProBoost modification kindly supplied by Steve but I'm somewhat missing the FSI sophistication. OTOH buying an engine in a scrapyard (there is one for sale around £450 in Italy) is sort of a lottery. I'd buy a complete car (this could give me more parts that I could need) but one can't find much under £1500 in Italy and of course you'd have to be sure that the FSI engine is better than mine. Any ideas? Thanks!
Stefano
I was wondering how come that the flap of my FSI was repeatedly blocked due to oil vapours and finally I asked my mechanics to check the compression ratio of the cylinders. As was probably obvious, the compression on this 90.000 miles engine is very low in all cylinders, (from 5,4:1 to 7,8:1...) proving that this little car was abused by previous owners so much that even its engine's innards are worn out. Rebuilding the engine is out of the question because of the high costs, Audi would not provide a 'light' engine if not for a huge pile of money and I'm wondering what to do now. The FSI drives well with the ProBoost modification kindly supplied by Steve but I'm somewhat missing the FSI sophistication. OTOH buying an engine in a scrapyard (there is one for sale around £450 in Italy) is sort of a lottery. I'd buy a complete car (this could give me more parts that I could need) but one can't find much under £1500 in Italy and of course you'd have to be sure that the FSI engine is better than mine. Any ideas? Thanks!
Stefano