Where do I start… :noidea:
For the last month or so I’ve noticed my car using more oil than normal, after JTS it drank about 1.5-2lts of the stuff over 300-400 miles, yet there was very little coming out the back end of the car (only when really hammered hard/hot it might let out a little blue puff on gear changes, but after all my turbo issues I dismissed this as an issue due to residue oil in the system – long story!) :roll:
Anyway after checking my oil recently I decided to pop out for a lengthy drive to see if the oil consumption was still on going. Filling up at the petrol station there was a small burning smell and some smoke from the engine. Bonnet up and a quick check confirmed my thoughts that when checking the dip stick a small amount of oil had dripped on to the manifold heat wrap and was just burning off.
Either way just to make sure all was ok I would stop further down the road to make sure that it was all ok.
After a gentle drive down the motorway (no boost @ a genuine 65mph) for 3-4 miles, we pulling into the first service station and I performed a quick check. All the smoke/smell of burning had gone/stopped – great!
However in the garage forecourt lights I never noticed something quite worrying, as my friend lent over to feel the enormous amount of heat from the engine his shadow covered to the manifold to show it glowing strawberry red!!!!!!! :shock:
Not a little bit, but this CAST manifold look liked it had come out of a CORUS furnace. Although the manifold is wrapped in heat tape there are bits of it have been damaged or exposes which allowed me to see how bad it was.
The turbo and downpipe were not glowing at all, nor was the oil temps high (70oC), boost is a nice 0.6bar (not that it matters as I’d not used any boost anyway) and I’ve not done anything to the car recently apart from whip the turbo off about 4 times, had the rest of the custom exhaust completed and that’s about it.
Now that you have the info, my next question is what the hell would be causing this? :sad:
Spoken to a couple of members on there about this (possible fuelling problems, timing and I’m going to look into that)
Over the last few months I’ve been meaning to fit a wideband and now a EGT since this problem has arisen, but is there anything that would be worth looking at.
I’m going to have to inspect the engine to see what (if any) damage has been caused and get it all sorted out before Cadwell Park in Aug :?
Any comments about possible things to look out for or explanations for what’s going would be appreciated.
For the last month or so I’ve noticed my car using more oil than normal, after JTS it drank about 1.5-2lts of the stuff over 300-400 miles, yet there was very little coming out the back end of the car (only when really hammered hard/hot it might let out a little blue puff on gear changes, but after all my turbo issues I dismissed this as an issue due to residue oil in the system – long story!) :roll:
Anyway after checking my oil recently I decided to pop out for a lengthy drive to see if the oil consumption was still on going. Filling up at the petrol station there was a small burning smell and some smoke from the engine. Bonnet up and a quick check confirmed my thoughts that when checking the dip stick a small amount of oil had dripped on to the manifold heat wrap and was just burning off.
Either way just to make sure all was ok I would stop further down the road to make sure that it was all ok.
After a gentle drive down the motorway (no boost @ a genuine 65mph) for 3-4 miles, we pulling into the first service station and I performed a quick check. All the smoke/smell of burning had gone/stopped – great!
However in the garage forecourt lights I never noticed something quite worrying, as my friend lent over to feel the enormous amount of heat from the engine his shadow covered to the manifold to show it glowing strawberry red!!!!!!! :shock:
Not a little bit, but this CAST manifold look liked it had come out of a CORUS furnace. Although the manifold is wrapped in heat tape there are bits of it have been damaged or exposes which allowed me to see how bad it was.
The turbo and downpipe were not glowing at all, nor was the oil temps high (70oC), boost is a nice 0.6bar (not that it matters as I’d not used any boost anyway) and I’ve not done anything to the car recently apart from whip the turbo off about 4 times, had the rest of the custom exhaust completed and that’s about it.
Now that you have the info, my next question is what the hell would be causing this? :sad:
Spoken to a couple of members on there about this (possible fuelling problems, timing and I’m going to look into that)
Over the last few months I’ve been meaning to fit a wideband and now a EGT since this problem has arisen, but is there anything that would be worth looking at.
I’m going to have to inspect the engine to see what (if any) damage has been caused and get it all sorted out before Cadwell Park in Aug :?
Any comments about possible things to look out for or explanations for what’s going would be appreciated.
