Engine problems

[Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom@Hax.SE>]

It seems some of my problems weren't related to induction after all...

Even though my cold idle problems are much less severe now with the EFI, it 
seems I still have problems getting it to run on all cylinders when cold.

Here's a picture of cylinder 8 - 5 (in that order) plugs:
http://www.detomaso.nu/~thomast/plugs.jpeg

I have probably run around 60km with them since I fired it up with the EFI.
cylinders 5, 6 and 8 looks just fine to me, but cylinder 7 still has a problem. 
Before I could drive the car, when I just could let it idle in the garage, #7 
was pitch black. The plugs are the same plugs I ran around 5000 km last year. I 
did swap #7 and #8 plugs and what used to be #7 is now clean and seems to run 
properly in #8.

Right after start it feels as if it doesn't run on all cylinders.

I took a compression test:

cyl	comp (bar)
5	8.0
6	7.8		
7	8.5
8	7.5

For those who still live by the empires units, that would be around 115 psi. 
What is a normal pressure on a 2V open chamber engine?

With a compression ratio if 8:1 I believe those figures are just about right. I 
verified the gauge on my wifes golf, which has a ratio of 10:1, and the gauge 
showed around 10.5 bar, or 150 psi.

Due to water leaks I replaced both head gaskets. The engine doesn't smoke and/or 
consume oil or water.

This is what the head looked like when I replaced the gasket:
http://www.detomaso.nu/~thomast/efi/head-left.jpeg

When the engine is fully warmed up it seems to run on all 8 and the cylinder 
balance test built into the EFI says all cylinders contribute equally when warm. 
The first time I ran the test, before having driven the car, the test complained 
about cylinder 7 not contributing. It said that for the first two tests and I 
never ran the third.

If I didn't know that it was running badly on #7 last year also I would say I 
had a bad injector, but I feel the chance of selecting the one bad injector for 
the cylinder that was running poorly previously is just too slim, ignoring 
Murphy of course.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm beginning to suspect the lifters (why oh why didn't I replace them when I 
had the intake off...).

I pulled the left valve cover last night to verify that the rockers at least 
seems to move properly. I noticed that the oil deflectors in the rockers are not 
mounted the same way as in the service manual:

See:
http://www.detomaso.nu/~thomast/deflector1.jpeg

In the manual the deflectors seems to cover the oil hole in the rod end of the 
rocker. I did remove the rockers (obviously) when I pulled the head to replace 
the gasket but I put everything back the way it was. Tomas Gunnarsson told me 
the purpose of the deflectors is to steer the oil down to the fulcrum.

Are they mounted the wrong way?

Thanks,
Thomas