lacofdfireman
Junior Member
I recently bought a 06 Mustang GT and stupid me didn’t compression check the engine because the compression tester we rented won’t fit down far enough to screw into the spark plug hole so bought it anyways. Well after about 50 miles I got a check engine light and thought for sure it was just a vacuum leak or something but could never find one. Finally was able to compression check it and found cylinder 1 had no compression. Weird thing is I couldn’t really hear it at idle but I’d did kinda feel a little low on power driving it but never really hear a miss. Pulled the valve cover and the retainer and spring were just sitting under the cover not in their right place. Took my bore scope and looked into the cylinder and you can see the must be bent and just sitting there at the top of the cylinder. Also my Ford racing hot cam is scared on one of the lobe’s. So now I’m gotta replace my engine.
Current engine is at 127k miles. Wondering if I should replace with another engine with around the same miles as mine or if I should consider a reman engine. I don’t want to be into this for any more than another $4k or so at this point. No interest at all doing a Coyote swap. I wanna stick with the 4.6l 3V. This is just a fun car for me. HPDE track days and drive around town once in awhile. It’s not a daily for me. So in your opinion what’s the best smartest use of my money. I would like to cam the new engine again and I believe that will void any warranty. Not sure if i wanna go with the Ford Hot cams again or maybe a Detroit. But for sure something that will work with the stock springs.
Any input appreciated. Hoping to keep my engine I pull out and rebuild over time as a spare.
Current engine is at 127k miles. Wondering if I should replace with another engine with around the same miles as mine or if I should consider a reman engine. I don’t want to be into this for any more than another $4k or so at this point. No interest at all doing a Coyote swap. I wanna stick with the 4.6l 3V. This is just a fun car for me. HPDE track days and drive around town once in awhile. It’s not a daily for me. So in your opinion what’s the best smartest use of my money. I would like to cam the new engine again and I believe that will void any warranty. Not sure if i wanna go with the Ford Hot cams again or maybe a Detroit. But for sure something that will work with the stock springs.
Any input appreciated. Hoping to keep my engine I pull out and rebuild over time as a spare.