the other day on the way home from pod my car started running lumpy and missing. it literally happened at the end of my road so i got it home and parked it up.

i done a compression test and got these results.

1- 10.1
2- 9.2
3- 4.0
4- 4.5

when the tester was in clylinder 3 smoke was puffing out of number 4 and when tester was in 4 smoke came from 3.

after seeing them i started to take the head off hoping to find the gasket gone between 3 and 4.

well the head is now off enough for me to slide teh gasket out and there is a nice few mm gap between clyinders 3 and 4.


now do i just replace the head gasket and bolts and put it back together time it up and hope for the best or is there anything else i could or should check before.

do gasket just go in time or will there be a cause of the problem somewhere that i need to find first?

the engine is a calibra turbo (c20let)


cheers in advance for any advice!