Since time is not of the essence I might throw out a few things.
Carbon tracking inside the distributor cap. Just because a cylinder is dead does not mean the spark is going to evaporate. Itās going to go to the closest ground and which oftentimes is the closest cap terminal.
What about the possibility of the compression on the middle cylinders being artificially inflated due to a head gasket breach (gasket and/or warped cylinder head) all the way down the row; less 1 and 6 of course.
Saw a VW 5 cylinder with something like this one time.
In other words, one cylinder huffing into another and so on due to a severely warped head.
There are some people here who think that the compression numbers of 120-130, with one cylinder being 110 are poor, and others who say this is fine. I am really curious about this, as I have a car which is difficult to start and idles poorly but does not stall. A professional mechanic did a compression test and leak-down test, and measured compression of 130, 150, 151, 130 and felt that this was acceptable, and the problem was likely something else. The factory service manual for this vehicle does not give a āstandard dimensionā for the compression pressure, only a āservice limitā of 100 PSI.
When one cylinder is considerably lower than the others itās possible that adjusting the valves could improve the situation but more than likely the low cylinder will soon drop too low to operate.
Everything that weāre talking about now has already been talked about literally years ago in this very discussion
As far as I can tell, nothing has changed, as far as op and his car goes
The next thing we SHOULD be hearing is that op installed a known good motor of the correct model year, or that he installed a freshly rebuilt motor of the correct model year
But something tells me thatās not going to happen anytime soon . . . or ever
no one of these years I will just change the engine that I already have. this summer may be the year. but first I want to check on these injectors closer. i just find it so interesting that it runs totally perfect at a idle and it sat for 8 months and started in a half second and ran perfect. on 2 cylinders. the fact that it can even move like that is not normal.
Iāve done enough compression tests on anything with wheels to know that 130 PSI sucks. I suspect this kind of BS is perpetrated in part by Chiltonās manuals. They all say that 130 is great. One of those manuals even states that 150 on one cylinder is fine and 110 on another is perfectly acceptable. Not.
Same Chiltons that says 6 PSI of oil pressure at 1800 RPMs on a Buick 3.8 is normal and good.
The only auto engine in which 120 is good is an air cooled VW Beetle and thatās only because of their 6 to 1 compression ratio.
The rule of thumb is 20 X compression ratio at sea level. Subtract a small amount for altitude or a barometric pressure change.
Some of the so -called domestic brand cars back in the 70s smog era would run somewhat lower than usual compression numbers (say 170-175 or so) but it wasnāt because of engine wear. They ran the camshaft timing retarded compared to the prior decade where horsepower was up.
Update, I pulled the motor. I have a motor from another supra same year ready to put in. Working 7 days a week not so could be months before I get around to dropping it in.
I had white 1985 supra yrs ago. I parked it partly because the rear seal was leaking and the body was not in such a good shape anymore. I had gotten something else. While I was driving this car I got another 85 supra that was from Texas with a blown motor. Got it for parts originally. The car from Texas is the car I am working on getting going now.
The engine I am putting in there ran fine when it was parked. It is costing me nothing but a few hours of time. Could be fall before I get around to dropping that motor in.