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Originally Posted by theunchosen

Cylinder 3 went hot and bored a hideous hole right through the piston and slagged the rod.

Happened unbelievably fast. Injector 3 went belly up(dirt or particulate matter from the line itself) and by the time the pressure built up enough to pin open the valve to feed through the backup unit Piston 3 was toast. So In a matter of just about 2 minutes Michelle chewed up her own heart.

Will rebuild engine with aluminum pistons w/ heat syncs. Should drop a large boost in cooling.

Backed out of my spot turned pulled out of driveway got to the top of the hill(400 yards steep incline) started applying lean and diagnostic started spitting all kinds of errors. Shut it down and watched it smoke.

I think the problem was the pump was pumping up hill(its located inside the resevoir in the trunk so its 10 feet away and now on a steep incline) and it lost alot of pressure having to pump and the dirt got lodged under the low pressure(would normally be difficult at 30 PSI, all injectors were bench tested and new none had problems and the old resevoir had more junk floating in it than this one and it had no problems). So I think a Much more powerful pump for the resevoir, piston heat syncs and the other remaining bits and pieces I didn't have time for today.

Are you capable of rebuilding with a compression high enough to allow for compression ignition? If you could, that would allow you to rid yourself of the spark plug altogether, and put a water injector right in that spot, which could spray directly on the piston, if things got too hot (like in a loop with EGT sensor... EGT's get too hot, injectors spray a mist on the pistons on the compression strokes or something)

If you need a set of D-series pistons, I have some PG6B's still on the rods that I'd part with for the cost of shipping to keep this project going! (They're 86-87 D16A1 (1st gen 'Teg) pistons.)