Well, its been a good 8-9months (4x,000km), car copped a good thrashing at numerous track days, hill runs, skid pans and it is nearly at the end of it's life.
117,000KM later, the car is now experiencing excessive blow by......
all cooler & intake pipes have sh*tloads of oil in it and the AFM & inside of air filter is literally painted with oil. i've installed a catch can just to see how much it collects in one day. car runs smooth until the AFM is covered in oil then it gets lumpy idle (sounds like stage 1 cams :lol: ) it drives smooth still but when i try to floor it, theres a lag in boost and it feels as if im running at 50% power then what it was before.. such a sad weekend for my car but i already have someting big planned for it for this year so i will update later on when it is nearly completed
I had a feeling the compression wasn't perfect from day 1 when i did the conversion as i noticed a tiny bit of oil around the sparkies when i did the service.
i guess 14psi was just too much for it..
it made a good 204rwkw / 549nM on 14psi on a 30degree day.
after some fun @ twisties run on Sat night, the car started missing at the end of the night.
wouldn't boost properly, stuttering, rough idle, sounded funny when it did boost.
problems found;
1) 1x bolt fell off screamer pipe so it was open (hence funny sound) so everytime i gated, massive amounts of heat melted the wiring loom & o2 sensor loom......
2) vaccum line from ebc to wastegate melted as it was near the screamer, the hose was as hard as plastic and just snapped in half
afm
cooler pipes/tb
intake
Looks like my rings are f*ked?????
but it's not blowing any blue/grey smoke tho.
Willl get a comp test & leak down test just to see how bad the damage is but as long as i baby it now and dont give it hell, it should last a few more months of "sedate" driving.