Possible Low Comp In One Cylinder + Oil In Intake

[DuFFR32]

Hey all I went to my first drag meet in casino on the weekend, It was a good turn out over 120 cars n they havin another meet on the 23rd of may for more info go to www.summerlanddrags.com

Anyways my best time was 8.36sec on the 1/8th mile it was pretty hard to get traction as it was a street surface (airport strip lol)

I done 7 runs on the day and after the second last run the car sounded a little different.... i thought nothing of it really and done a last run and it didnt have near the same power as the last run and as i looked behind there was lots of blue smoke... as i limped the car back to the pits it definately sounded like its kinda missing in one cylinder, as if its lost compression. I poped the bonnet and saw oil around the blow off valve and oil sprayed on parts around it, now im thinking the engine has bad blow-by in one or more cylinders and i dont have an oil catch can. basically oil is getting pushed into the intake i believe causing the smoke... the car made the 80km trip home fine but still dont sound right.

So basically i believe i need a new engine soon and as I live in yamba nsw on the north coast where would I be able to buy one?

I wanted to swap my turbo gtr injectors n the like onto the fresh motor

im fairly mechanicly minded so i can do most things myself but cant build an engine lol

Any help would be appreciated, Cheers

[FloydWestwood]

I found the exact same problem on my car yesterday mate.

I'm getting a catch can and then driving round for a week or so see if its excessive blow by or dead rings. Or the turbo.

Maybe try the catch can, or do a compression/leak down test before you spend $$$ on a new engine.

[dori34]

yeah do what floydwestwood has said as i replied to his post yesterday,

but definitely sounds like you need a new motor or rebuild your current one.

hit up jap wreckers for pricing on a new RB20, justjap, SSS to name a few.

[DuFFR32]

I pulled the intake piping off to find a pool of oil lying in the bottom of it today.... I mean a fair bit of oil too so i took off the intake to the turbo off to make sure its not my turbo oil seal thats goneski and there was a pool of oil in there too so basically i need a catch can now.

I also checked all the spark plugs to see if any were fouling (making my car sound its lost 1/2 a cylinder) only the plug in cylinder 3 was oily and i mean the thread and the outer electrode but the tip wasnt oily! this must be the bung cylinder i guess, im going to clean the oil out of everything and buy a catch can for the car and see how i go,

if it dosnt get better and i dont get my cylinder back i guess its new engine time

[DuFFR32]

just pulled cooler off and found oil lying in the bottom of it....at least 200+ ml not good ay, possible turbo seal gone too maby?

[Duncan]

just do a compression test!