Originally posted by Garage Battle
removed the factory catch can?
stock sidemount with no hole made?
detonation but u still kept in it?
im thinking that you prolly have done 2 things:
1. blown your headgasket
2. the oil is from your lack of catchcan, got dumped back into the intake piping, and then got sprayed through the turbo and out the BOV on shifts.
well, hope whatever damage isnt too bad. btw wtf stock sidemount?
Never have had a catch can on any SR I have owned. Not sure exactly why but thats just the way they have been.
No hole because I was going FMIC soon and not going to cut into my bumper. Plus, back in 97 when I had my first SR, I ran no IC at all and 9psi with no problems.
Detonation on the drive home. I would get into it and then listen for it, if I heard it, I would back out immediately. I never heard it throughout the day. It would have been nice if anyone who heard it would have said something. It's kind of difficult to hear when you have your head in a helmet.
As for the stock SMIC, I just didn't have any time to put this car together, I barely made the deadline as it was. And I have known plenty of other people running that setup with zero problems.
As for checking the headgasket... I would need to do a leakdown test correct? Would a compression check be in order as well?