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it depends on how bad they are bent if they are bent. I guess the only way to find out is to try starting it. However since you continued to crank the motor over after it died also leads me to believe you have bent valves. get the timing belt back on and do a compression check. i dont see why the car wont run on 3 cylinders but if you have more bent valves chances are unlikely. Also im not too crazy about driving all that distance on only 3 cylinders either. The unburnt fuel in the cylinder thats not firing correctly will wash out the cylinder walls and rings causing more problems. This being an extreme case like 0 compression in that cylinder, wont be as bad if you still have a little compression.
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or you could do the inteligent thing and disconnect the injector for that cylinder like I did on my 3 cylinder saturn. car ran fine for a bit over 10K miles with cylinder 3 dead with no compression. other than my heat not being so great and the lack of power it drove fine. suprising to me there was no abnormal bearing wear from being down a cylinder. it looked like I could replace a valve and go another 100K on that engine.