Back to square one...

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:59 am

Ok so out playing in the honda since the ecu got tuned, Well raced a few people just to test and tune it then it started acting all weird so we changed the plugs and wires and fixed a minor coolant leak "very little" since we seen it. Well went back out to see how it was cause we tried a different gap on the plugs we found on the internet saying .33 would be perfect for the plugs, and we turned back the dist just a tad from the stock point cause it was still running funny but that seemed to line it back out.

Well anyways I went out to race a Cobalt SS with new internals and 12psi on the SC, well 1rst and second I was walking away no problem and it seemed to be running alot better, well blew the intercooler pipeing going into third so I pulled out of it and pulled out and tighted it up and it was fine. Did the race again and had the same outcome but the intercooler piping didn't come off this time. The car just fell on it's face and kept shutting off, so I let it cool down a bit and it wouldn't start.

Anyways got it started and drove it to a buddys and it was smoking out the breather on the valve cover and were like wtf. Called stolle asked him a few questions on what it could be and we tried a few things, well we got it running and I was driving it home and got the light about 3 blocks away and it started idleing at 500rpms again and trying to die well I was watching theh tach and happened to look up as the light turn green I noticed the car was surrounded in smoke I could barely see through well I get it home and as soon as I pull up it shuts off and smokes everywhere and the oil light came on right as I was pulling up too. Well check the oil and its got a little under half and oils everywhere. Return hose is like seeping oil out of it and the breathers like puking it out. It's so fucked up, obviously it's time to go ZC.

Sorry for the long rant just tired and pissed but it was a test and tune kinda thing.

rickles8099 · Post by **rickles8099** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:04 am

check to make sure you didnt blow a headgasket and check the turbo to make sure it didnt lock up. only reason i say check the turbo is because you say the return line is seeping oil out of it.

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:06 am

it's spinning the turbo freely and blowing off and boosting fine cause I had to get it home cause thats not my turbo to mess up, but it was like for a split second I boosted it cause thats what I thought it was.

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:10 am

maybe something is wrong with the turbo cause it was making a chiming sorta noise the whole time its been on.

5thgen · Post by **5thgen** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:11 am

ringlands maybe?

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:14 am

the motor might be toast who knows, all I know is the chim noise got a bit louder before i shut it off and it sqeeked shutting off.

5thgen · Post by **5thgen** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:15 am

do you know how much total timing you were running?

90CivicEx · Post by **90CivicEx** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:28 am

seriously it was just the timeing on the dist, like we turned it back like a hair lol. Like were the dist sits in the stock position you couldn't tell we turned it.

We didn't touch crank or cam gear timeing.

If I unhook the intercooler pipeing the car seems to run fine but it still smokes out the breather on the valve cover but it goes away.

5thgen · Post by **5thgen** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:40 am

ouch....you might have been running as much as 30+ degrees timing.

thats quite a bit....usually more than enough to detonate.

jigglenuts · Post by **jigglenuts** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:41 am

we had the same problem with my cousins cavy and it was the ringlands. it had little to no compression in the 3rd cylinder.was blowin oil out the valve cover breather.