Thanks for the input guys and sorry for not providing more info. Always wished I spent my time learning cars instead of computers. Anyway, a little background. It's an all black automatic '93 LX 5.0 with some modifications. From the invoices of the previous owner it has: TFS heads, TFS track, TFS cam, TFS spacer, 3016 injectors, TFS 6.7 pushrods, FMS rockers, Walbro fuel pump, Accufab 70 w/ spacer, BBK cold air intake, Trickflow intake, and it has a neat looking FMS triangle brace over the engine. I believe the headers are BBK shorties and flowmaster mufflers. Like I said, i'm not a car guy so I'm not sure what all that means. The odometer reads around 70k. Inside, it is immaculate with only a few alterations: an autometer tach, and a B&M racing/ratchet shifter (which made me feel really stupid when i first drove it, because i couldn't figure the damned thing out). The exterior has a Cervini cobra R hood, Saleen wing, it's been lowered a couple inches i thinkg, and, as far as i can tell, has '96 cobra wheels. I have some pics up at
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if you want to see it. Almosteverything is pristine, except for some of the hoses, which are dryrotting. The shop that I took it to gave me a paper with a chart that showed 0 compression on the 8th cylinder. They told me that it could just be a leaky header gasket or that the piston is damaged. I thought maybe it was the gasket because i had just changed that. Or i thought it was a vacuum leak because i had just replaced a hose because it broke from dryrotting, but i couldn't see any broken hoses. Anyway the shop wanted $600 just to replace the header gasket and "many times more than that" if it was a broken piston. That seemed a little shady to me. Should it even run with a busted piston? Wouldn't there be pinging? So I just took it home and have been trying to get someone that knows what they're doing to look at it. I think i've found someone, but i just have to get it towed to his place. He's charging me $250 + parts to fix.
Thanks again for the comments. Hopefully I'll get it working soon!
JD