Lt1 hates life i guess
11-18-2008, 09:00 PM
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Lt1 hates life i guess 
i do everything to this engine to make it a nice home and it bites me in the butt.New CAI, Tranny, clutch, and hydralics, new ROyal Purple fluids, new aluminum DS, a CAM Headers, throttle sensor radiator, water pump, hoses, rear end. and now it decides to start burning away that beautiful purple oil i gave it...
i have no idea why its burning its oil. any suggestions. Give me a list of evrything that can go wrong please...
11-18-2008, 09:04 PM
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Most likely the fact that the oil is a thinner (not in weight) and seeping past the seals/gaskets. That's what happens to lots of higher mileage engines when a new owner switches to a synthetic oil. While it might not be true on the newer motors, I generally go by if it's been a convention oil engine past 40K miles, that I keep it a conventional oil engine.
11-19-2008, 08:45 AM
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well i was told by a fellow SS driver that i am burning oil based on my smoke. my friend ian told me that and i checked my dipstick. and... nothing on it. so i put new oil in it. then my dipstick says wayyyy too much. so i drain the excess. idk whats going on..
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Well it could be burning some and maybe by chance the car is running too rich so the blue and slight black is making an offset white. Just a guess lol Does the car leave puddles anywhere? I would put in your every day conventional Valvoline/Castrol (or cheap brand if you feel like it for this test) 10w-30 and see how that fairs. If you want, give the Max Life (or equal type High Mileage oil) a try. It's helped some of my vehicles before slow the leak. Can also give Lucas Oil a try (their addatives) for older engines, they make good stuff.
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Given we don't know where he lives, all sorts of possibilities. The 'no oil on the dipstick' could (no offense dude) be completely user error. If it was burning oil THAT fast, it would be puffing out thick blue smoke like mad.
11-19-2008, 06:44 PM
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Isn't that kind of jumping over all the diagnosing, right to extreme circumstances? You left out doing compression checks, to looking at the plugs and checking all the wires (ohming them out, not that I can offer advice on that as I'm not sure what the ideal resistance is. Aftermarket ones say how many ohms/ft they are.) and a slew of possible other components. Could be bad gas with a bit more water than usual and it's just causing steam.
Given we don't know where he lives, all sorts of possibilities. The 'no oil on the dipstick' could (no offense dude) be completely user error. If it was burning oil THAT fast, it would be puffing out thick blue smoke like mad.
Given we don't know where he lives, all sorts of possibilities. The 'no oil on the dipstick' could (no offense dude) be completely user error. If it was burning oil THAT fast, it would be puffing out thick blue smoke like mad.
Just mentioning one of the possibilities of a sports car, they get ragged out, some way more than others.
