View Single Post
Old Feb 15, 2005 | 10:39 AM
  #1 (permalink)  
lead's Avatar
lead
I'm Awesome
 
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,283
Likes: 0
Unhappy Engine Diagnosis

Ok I have been having trouble figuring out what is wrong with this damn engine for the longest time....I want to turbo and have all my core parts but I need this engine to stop burning oil.

I lose coolant, i have a light drip comming from my radiator so that might be it, or maybe not, I don't know where the hell the stuff goes but it doesn't stay in my engine, I have no over heating issues.

I leak from several different gaskets. The vtec gasket the oil pan gasket (i think) and it look like the head gasket.
- I say the head gasket because i noticed oil by my exhaust manifold so I pulled it off and directly underneath the ports i see oil all gunked up and wet but inside the ports there is no trace of oil at all.

I do compression test almost weekly and make fantastic numbers each time all 225 give or take 5 psi. I decided to do a very backyard mechanic leak down test and put a tablespoon of oil in each cylinder then compression tested and get my psi levels to shoot to 270's for each cylinder (apparently i was told that if it didn't rise then it would be my valve seals and if it did rise it was my piston rings.

I'm in the process of getting the engine to stop leaking on the outside so I can figure out what is happening on the inside. but good ole honda has no freaking parts there and i had to order them (which after thinking about it i have to go threre and pick them up and pay their overcharged prices when i could have just bought the damn parts online.) (fuck honda and my stupidity)

It is driving my crazy, because if i don't want to rip out this engine and rebuild, i just want to get it boosted and tuned.

I smoke blue and it isn't on startup, it is when i give it gas at idle and when i drive from about 1st and 2nd i give a nice little cloud occasionally. (a cloud of def blue smoke)

I run lean (white stuff on spark plug) on cylinder #3 but that may be unrelated.

I am ready to change out the head gasket just to see if that solves my problem, This will also allow me to see the condition of the pistons and my valves, ect.

If anyone has any advice or wants to help me break my car some more please speak up here is a pic.....of my evil little bastard engine.




__________________
Alarm Crazy!
|| 1994 Honda del Sol vtec || B16a2 || 2 engines in garage one in car w00t status ||

-John
Aim: le lead
Cell: (813)843-8523

Last edited by lead; Feb 15, 2005 at 10:42 AM.
Reply