I'm looking into buying a new car, and I have my eyes set on a pretty nice 94 GT. It was made for a supercharger and has 8.5:1 compression because of it. It's still quick just because the exhaust, cam, intake, heads... basically everything has been redone as well. Anyways, if I bought it, I'd drive it around for at the most a year, least 6 months, without adding a supercharger back one (he sold it seperately). It's running just a tad rich too.

How bad would that be, running a car meant for a supercharger w/ 8.5 compression and a little rich (will probably get that fixed though) for a year tops before a supercharger is back on?

 

Anything thats not lean is good, I dont see a problem but others on here might.

 

its not the best thing but you won't kill anything. you could flood your shit out but i don't see that it would be that bad....you could just back the fuel presure down and that would fix a good part of the problem.

 

Good deal, there's a fuel pressure reg on it so I can back it off if I need to. Now... just waiting for my auto-loan check to get it so I can go buy it. Thanks for the speedy replies guys. Hrmm... going to have to change my forum name, doh.

 

Also, the car is going to feel like a DOG.. With that low of compression, it will have somewhere in the area of ... hmmmm... 0 torque... without the supercharger.. lol .. It will go forward, it just wont be very exciting

 

with the car running rich vtec might kick in late. but you can fix that with the vtec controller.

 

like FordMan said get a compression check, because with 8.5:1 that is damn low and I would assume that he must have been putting a GOOD amount of boost into the motor. Most people that go with a lower compersion piston and a blower go with higher compersion then that.

 

if it is really rich just change the oil very frequently and you'll be fine