ryansmoneypit

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45 minutes! Frickin nuts!

I imagine it's one of those jobs you **** an moan about, longer than the job takes.

aidandj

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It also helps that I've probably pulled 10 to 15 of these.

shlammed

iTrader: (8)

each time you've only had 2 or 3 bolts left over.

aidandj

iTrader: (5)

Me thinks my "new" motor has a bit of blow by

ridethecliche

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Aww man. I was hoping your dipstick tube was going to pop out and that we could be 'related thread' twins again!

But really though... Ugh. That ******* blows. Hopefully it's tolerable enough with the way you have things routed that it'll do as is till you decide to slap something else together.

Full_Tilt_Boogie

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I was browsing the new posts on here and my coworker happened to be sitting next to me. They spotted this thread title and said "wtf is that?"

Keep up the good work

Fireindc

iTrader: (13)

Interesting. Does the smoke/vapor coming out of the catch can smell like burnt oil, or sweet like vapors? Clearly it's smoking out the exhaust too, sorry to see this. My new motor definitely emits vapors out of the catch can, but doesn't really catch any oil at all, and doesn't smoke like that either. Just a data point, I think some condensation/vapor out of the catch can is pretty normal.

aidandj

iTrader: (5)

When I plug the pcv it actually looks like it's blowing out the turbo lol.

Fireindc

iTrader: (13)

****. I see that now. Curious to see what your leakdown results are!

Also, sorry to see this man. After just putting in so much work on my car to get it running, i don't know what i'd do if it had to come back apart. Maybe park it in the corner for another 4 years.

Braineack

iTrader: (62)

i feel like every built motor on this site gets built 15 times just to get the rings to seal...

aidandj

iTrader: (5)

This isn't a built motor. Stock motor I thought was good to go. I'll check leakdown again but it seemed ok.

I guess my question is, if I don't run out of oil what is the worst that will happen. Supposed to leave for Laguna in a week, and that's a long road trip :(

Scaxx

Check your oil at every gas station, we'll be stopping a lot for gas with my gas guzzler anyway

aidandj

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Hailey said she's setting a timer and we're checking every hour.

codrus

Worst that could happen? Engine seizes, catches fire, buns Miata to the ground, starting the largest wildfire in California history and killing a thousand people.

--Ian

Scaxx

Well......there's that too

Fireindc

iTrader: (13)

Why do you think this is? My newly built motor has been using a bit of oil, pretty much only on decel. It was .25 of a qt low after 500 miles of break in. Kinda of like stem seal leakage, but those are brand new and of the supermiata variety and were installed by a reputable shop. Of course that was the first 500 miles of its life, so hopefully the usage goes away entirely.

Stock - rebuilt motor? Or just a stock junkyard motor? How many miles are on it? Maybe it just needs some more miles on with lots of accel/decel.

aidandj

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It was a stock motor pulled out of a friends race car. He thought it didn't smoke and ran well, but I guess it smoked the last time it was on the dyno.

Hindsight I should have done a leakdown and some more investigation, no such thing as a free lunch.

curly

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My friend said he has one of those cockpit adjustable boost controllers on his race car. If he was ever down on power, he'd give it a few spins, essentially using it as a push to pass ****. He did this on the stock msm ecu and later his ms3 I tuned.

This friend's motor is now in your car.

shuiend

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So aidan just needs to turn the ****?

andyfloyd

Just keep adding oil and send it. Youll have to change the oil more frequently because the blowby will dirty the oil quicker. I had a old Prelude that literally drank oil, just kept adding oil for 5 years before it finally broke a ringland.