VR4 newbie in Perth

[simmodrz]

G'day,

My friend is on his 4th VR4, been playing with EVO5/7/9 rally cars for yonks and then just snapped up a VR4 myself. Had a company car for a few years and been out of the car game but I thought time to get back behind the wheel of something fun.

VR4 I bought had a misfire, thought it would be head gasket/valve so i had head fully recond, just put it back on and still a misfire... turns out #3 has zero compression... weird as all of the bores look great and still have the machining marks etc (cars done 200,000km)

Time for either a bottom end rebuild OR if I can find a bottom end or motor in decent nick I'll just wack that in to get me rolling... I'll put a wanted ad up and see what happens on here.

Cheers,
Simmo

 

[BMGTZ]

hi mate...welcome.

try to get a complete long engine and do a rebuild. Getting a good VR4 engine now is a bit hard given the age

 

[4piknup]

easier and cheaper to find a n/a g4cp from a 93-99 sonata. they are the same engine without turbo pistons and oil squirters. but you going to rebuild anyway. (also they have hyundai on the spark cover and that seems to make some here squeamish)