Hard driving and oil consumption
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Hard driving and oil consumption I have a 02 WS6 with about 40,000 miles with the mods in sig. I have never had a problem with oil consumption till this weekend. Now this weekend I drove the **** out of my car. Pretty hard driving on the highway and up and down broadway when i got to where I was going. When I was leaving to go back to my city on Sunday my low oil light came on after getting gas.
I pulled over and checked the level and there was barely oil on the dipstick. I went and put in 3 quarts to be safe and everything was cool.
Tonight I raced a E55 and noticed on the video I was smoking pretty good. Is there a connection between hard driving and oil consumption?
Good idea to check the TB blade for oil coating and if there is go ahead and do a catch can of some sort?
I pulled over and checked the level and there was barely oil on the dipstick. I went and put in 3 quarts to be safe and everything was cool.
Tonight I raced a E55 and noticed on the video I was smoking pretty good. Is there a connection between hard driving and oil consumption?
Good idea to check the TB blade for oil coating and if there is go ahead and do a catch can of some sort?
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Originally Posted by 1fastWS6
Jeeeezus.....you added 3 QUARTS when it was still on the dipstick?!?!? You're probably overfull by 2 quarts now. Better drain some out.
Check the intake for oil.
Check the intake for oil.
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I think he would still like to know if there is some connection between hard driving and oil consumption. I would have to say though...I can guarantee there is a connection between driving with low oil and increasing oil consumption.
If I looked and i was 3 quarts low I would probably crap my pants. But as long as I don't do it on the track so they have to shut it down for clean-up I'll be ok.
If I looked and i was 3 quarts low I would probably crap my pants. But as long as I don't do it on the track so they have to shut it down for clean-up I'll be ok.
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Originally Posted by Another_User
I think he would still like to know if there is some connection between hard driving and oil consumption. I would have to say though...I can guarantee there is a connection between driving with low oil and increasing oil consumption.
If I looked and i was 3 quarts low I would probably crap my pants. But as long as I don't do it on the track so they have to shut it down for clean-up I'll be ok.
If I looked and i was 3 quarts low I would probably crap my pants. But as long as I don't do it on the track so they have to shut it down for clean-up I'll be ok.
Although the race later that night when I saw it on video and I was smoking it looked like I didn't like too much. But I'm not sure as to what color the smoke was.
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Had time tonight to pull the lid and stuff off. Sure enough the back of the TB blade had a coating of oil and the intake had slight oil coating. I'm considering the LS6 PCV conversion and a AMW catch can. My buddy also thinks the quart over might have contributed to the smoking during that race.
