Cascade Crew

iansane · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:37 pm Post subject: Smoking inquiry

I get a puff of smoke after in gear decel when I push the clutch in. Rings most likely culprit?

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:03 pm Post subject:

Or guides/seals

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:24 pm Post subject:

Jeez, seems oil burning is the #1 Crew problem of late! Laughing

Overrun leads me to think seals.

Is this on the BMW or is the turbo car up and about yet?

chevymad · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:00 pm Post subject:

I'd say guides/seals as well.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:58 pm Post subject:

You can't just make a vague post like that without telling us what car it is. Last I remember your firebird was smoking a good bit on the dyno, did you rebuild it?

BluFbdy · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:17 pm Post subject:

Haha lets all get our heads worked on at once. I put off doing the seals in lieu of a larger project on the car recently but I'm going to have to do them soon

iansane · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:37 pm Post subject:

This is on the bmw. Firebird goes to the tuner next week. And yeah, there was basically no pcv system causing massive oil consumption at WOT on the firebird. (At least that's what Steve suggested and a catch can alleviated).

Hrmm. I didn't even touch the seals when I slapped the JY head on. Sounds like I could try that. I have to do a cam swap, I can do the seals at the same time.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:19 am Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:41 am Post subject:

M50nv swap. Craiglist motor. Dropped it in, had a ridiculously cracked head. Yanked one from a junkyard and had it pressure tested. I was tired of spending money on an e30 motor so I had no more work done to it, just popped it on.

SpeedSecrets in monroe. It'll just be mobile after that. Lots of clean up work and ducting to do.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:28 am Post subject:

That's a pretty good motor. I did a bit or work on a friend's E34 with one not long ago. I hear it's a real PITA to do cam work on them though.

Are you running HPTuners on the stock LM7 ECM?

RSFreak · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject:

91camaro_rs · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:36 pm Post subject:

lol no kidding, anyone down for a valve stem seal workshop day??? ill buy pizza n beer lol