Excessive oil in intake

[Sina]

Hi Everyone,

Everything started when I was doing 110 on Hume highway and the water temp. went up so I lifted up and cruised until it came back to normal. Then I felt like I'm losing power (my oil temp gauge doesn't work) and as it got worse I rolled the window down and heard clicking noise from engine. I tried to pull over and engine died immediately before I turn it off. There was huge amount of smoke coming from engine bay from all around engine which looked like burning oil. whole process since I felt loss of power till engine died took about 3-4 minutes.

Long story short, I towed the car home and next day I went to see what's wrong and a water hose behind engine was exploded and engine was completely dry and engine didn't start at all. I pulled intake out and there's oil every where. once I got to turbo, compressor is floating in oil.

Please help me with your knowledge or similar experience. I'm ready for everything being engine complete rebuild with new turbo.

please leave your suggestion if I should rebuild, get new rb25 or any other engine and rough estimate for cost I should expect.

It's a 99 R34 gtt rb25det neo and I would like to repair and keep the car.

[KiwiRS4T]

You could be right - complete rebuild but hard to guess without seeing it. Best bet is to post up your town and ask for recommendations for a workshop with a good knowledge of RB engines. Take it there for an assessment and some price options. If possible take it to another shop as well.  If you are lucky a local member may be able to come and have a look.

Did you check the oil level afterwards?

BTW  you may find a second hand engine quicker and cheaper than a rebuild

[Sina]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes there was some engine and I drained the oil and there was about 4 litre.

I live in Baulkham Hills, NSW. Car is in undercover garage and hard to take to a workshop. I want to make sure the engine has to come out then I'll decide to rebuild or replace.

[GTSBoy]

90% chance you cooked it and blew headgasket which has pushed various fluids various places where they shouldn't have gone.

It's getting harder to find good 2nd hand engines these days, thanks to all the wankers who've treated them as if they were disposable all these years. A rebuild is starting to look more like the path people will have to take in the future.

[Sina]

Additional information: engine oil was very dark and just like water no viscosity but not milky.

I first thought maybe oil has been sucked from turbo bearing. But you're right can be caused by head gasket.

[KiwiRS4T]

Odds are engine will have to come out but if you pull the head off most likely all will be revealed.