| Change is a part of everyday life and we are | | | | performance and to bring it to mint condition. |
| designed to get bored. If you have a car for | | | | Such testing consists mainly in a compression test |
| longer than a year you definitely thought of | | | | and a leak-down test. The compression test is |
| changing at least a screw on it. As we are also | | | | performed in order to detect any existing |
| predestined to always want more almost every | | | | variances in between the cylinders. Measuring the |
| driver i know looks for ways to upgrade the | | | | pressure in the cylinders and outside you may |
| performances of their rides. | | | | come across a too low or a too high compression. |
| Also most drivers I know made the same | | | | A lower than normal compression shows that the |
| mistake when proceeding about the upgrade of | | | | piston is not sealing as it should. A too high |
| their vehicle. Before jumping head on to the spare | | | | compression shows a carbon build up on top of |
| parts store to pimp out your ride you should first | | | | the piston. |
| of all take into account that upgrading an engine | | | | A leak down test is performed in order to detect |
| that is less than 100% healthy is like hanging a | | | | any pressure losses your cylinders might have by |
| chandelier in a haunted house. Such an action will | | | | introducing pressurised air through a gauge. If any |
| only increase the throttle to it's decay. Therefore | | | | such leaks are found their source must be |
| the first thing you should do before considering | | | | detected and sealed. |
| the upgrade of your ride is to test your engine's | | | | |