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The motor is at 213K mi. right now, so not too insane, but not unreasonable for something like that to go out. I got the car at 197K, and changed the timing belt, water pump, cam and crank seals at 203K mi. My results for compression were 210 (CYL 1), 190 (CYL 3), 195 (CYL 5), 210 (CYL 2), 150...

Sorry to bump and old thread, but I saw this post and I'm running into the same issue with low compression in one cylinder and nearly identical numbers. I performed a wet compression test and my compression in cylinder 4 jumped from 150 to 220 (this was on a cold motor, so not totally accurate)...