HankookS2K

you need compressed air, all your doing is blowing air into your pistons and listening to see if the air is leaking into the oil pan, intake manifold or the exhaust manifold. that'll tell you where your problem is.

btw the 2mm headgasket is going to lose power. if your gonna get your head rebuilt, they are most likely going to deck the head and shave off a bit on the bottom end of the head so your compression will increase a bit, its not going to be anything drastic, so you probably wont even feel it. basically you do as everyone else is saying, if you get new valves get flat valves to increase coompression, keep the stock springs, and get ap2 retainers. your not going to get any gains going past the 9k redline.

chimmike

Are you positive the ticking isn't injector noise? Don't mean to offend you, but some people get surprised at how loud injector ticking can be.

iDomN8U

I was


Is the noise steady and follows RPM or is it random?

Tjs S2k

follows rpms. Im gettin a stethescope this weekend. Could be a bad injector cuz the car runs very rich under 5k. Ill figure it out! THanks guys! if the head does come off. Ill be getting everything you recommended!

S2Kage

Ahhh the infamous bad injector, ive seen people replace motors b/c they thought they had a rod knock all over a silly injector!

Tjs S2k

/\ I took it to honda 3 times (under warranty) they say nothing is wrong haha. But its the same dealer that said s2k diffs are strong and never have problems haha. I told them from day one it was my injectors, then they admitted to doing the valve adjustment wrong. But they said the valves are still to spec. So bad injector? Its a common problem?