Little. Blue. Different.

[scheides]

Just read good'ol vfaq, can't believe I forgot about the 100% throttle thing. Gah.

On a side note, all of the spark plugs look perfect--nice frosty brownish color, no oil on any of them. The car has been burning oil over the last 10k miles, sometimes 1/4 qt per 1000 miles, sometimes up to 2/3 of a quart per 1000 miles.

[MustGoFaster]

Good description, that's normal.

Leaving the throttle closed should make the numbers lower. Since you are throttling the inlet and making a slight vacuum in the manifold. WOT might bump the numbers up a little.

[TkrPerformance]

if it is burning that much oil now. I would really look into the oil catch can being the problem. put it all back to stock and see if that helps. I tryed to hook mine up the way you did and it was buring oil and had press in the engine. now it just has it hooked up normal.

[Halon]

Are any of your little vents hooked up backwards by chance? Any of them clogged? What if you removed the one from the intake pipe. Maybe it's hindering flow and not getting as much blow by out under full throttle?

Also, maybe not the ideal idea, but have you thought about taking it out and throwing it on someone else's car that is running well, to rule out the possibility of a bum turbo?

[scheides]

I think I'm gonna put the crank case vent system back to near stock and see how that works. I did pull one of the vents while on the dyno and it made zero difference, but I'm curious to just try it. I'm going to be putting on a few hundred miles this weekend, so it'll be a good time to test.

Brandon, I was down on power with the IX turbo, and now I have the BBK...oil burning continues, power went up with the BBK dramatically but still less than where it should be with it by about 40-50whp. So, it's not the turbo.

[scheides]

I just realized that last summer I swapped out my plug boots and wires...I've done plug changes since then with no noticable...the gap has remained consistent...the car never stumbles or anything under WOT. Replaced stock stuff with stock stuff.

[MustGoFaster]

And?

[scheides]

Just more data...couldn't failing/bad ignition components lead to loss of power?

[MustGoFaster]

Yes it can, It's just I wasn't getting the drift of your incomplete sentences.

[mike55112]

Just more data...couldn't failing/bad ignition components lead to loss of power?


I have extra coil packs if needed. I also am going to try out the hks dli plug and play system.