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Car Won’t Start – But Has Good Compression, Spark and Fuel

By Alpina_Blue,
Hey guys, my '87 Starion has hit a bit of a brick wall and I'm hoping someone on the forum might be able to shed some light. A local shop has been meticulously going through the car, replacing and servicing everything as needed with no real issues to date. However, just as things were wrapping up, it suddenly won’t start for no obvious reason.
Here are some basics that I know:
1. The car will crank, but won't start
2. It has compression, fuel and spark (compression is great across
Leftover jet-valve head, what do

By GoldStar,
Some time back, I replaced my head as the cam caps had developed stress fractures. I now have a jet-valve head taking up precious space in my garage, as well as another set of cam caps/rocker arms/rockers that I naively thought I could just swap with the cracked ones. Was thinking about just scrapping it all since it looks like G54B heads are still being produced, but I wanted to get a second opinion before I did. What should I do with it?
It does have the jet-valve delete kit, but it definite
Heavy surging under any throttle, then fixed
By BlueCuda,
I started the car up yesterday and as I drove out of the neighborhood it started to surge. Sometimes it surges at idle as it warms up but this was a surge at any throttle position. I initially thought maybe my fuel gauge was wrong and I limped to the a gas station and put some in it. No change, AFR was reading super lean.
The surge was steady in equal intervals, the tach signal always stayed right also. I opened the hood was was looking things over and all was well. I reached down and
temperature display
By gstruthers,
I have a 1987 Conquest Tsi that with the exception of after market coil overs (found here thank you!) is all original. Recently the temperature display has stopped working, the heat and ac both still work, just not the display. I have had it to two different mechanics and they were both clueless. Anyone have any thoughts?