Blown Engine and Stranded!!! NEED HELP!!

would a PCV throw a CEL and what would make the CEL FLASH?! (URGENT ATTENTION in manual)

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i wasnt shooting nitrous at all saturday. It cant be directly bc nitrous- the nx sure could have given the engine stress.....

anything else?
 
no, EVERYTHING IS FINE minus the oil in the intake. no smoke coming from the exhaust, no funny noises, no steam (head gasket) i opened the oil plug, normal oil smoke. nothing seems bad! its very odd, but could potentially be a big prob. ill have to get the CEL read.
 
hmmm 'oil in the intake could very possibly be a few things. bunk intake valve. bunk piston...
the studdering qould very well be the MAF sensor got soaked in oil and is giving false readings. you might want to unplug the MAF sensor and see if it will go into limp mode. (normally it wont go over 3K or so.) but that might be enough to get you home..

good luck
 
i had this problem with my previous car. i also used nitrous. did you possibly come close to redlineing it while spraying? not even on that day maybe a week before? i barely redlined mine one night and a week later i was driving and the car died out. it would start but if i got on the gas it sounded like a lawn mower. if this is sounding like the same thing that your going through sorry, but your piston is fried.
 
i cant compeltely remember redlining and nitrous. the highest i would have gone is maybe 5500 with nitrous, im scared to go higher.
it sat all night no leaks, then drove, sat 8 hours, THEN probs no shooting nitrous that day...
 
is a piston something they'd keep in stock?
would they just replace piston or would some other service be necessary?what kinda cost?
 
lol i um lets see for mine it would have been 3k for just replacing one piston plus new head and everything but i dont want to go into specifics on mine cuz of went on.

and no thats not normally an "in stock" item but mine was a different car, motor, and manufacturer so i dunno
 
TheMAN said:
the PCV valve can be checked VERY simply... just shake it around and see if it clicks.. if it doesn't do anything, it's bad

crankcase blow by happens when air leaks past the piston rings DOWN into the block, and then there is a air vent that leads back up into the top of the head where the cams are...

the oil cap test DOES NOT WORK on Japanese engines... you get a massive amount of air even on a perfectly working engine.. its because of all the moving parts at the top of the head (the cams), and the reciprocating assembly at the bottom of the block swirls air around... this does NOT inidcate piston ring blow by... revving the engine to 2000rpm should create enough intake vacuum to remove the massive amount of air coming out of the oil cap filler hole.. if it doesn't do that, then there's a problem

I stand corrected...However a friend of a friend had me look at his Celica GT-S...My friend owns one, and so does his friend from work...The second dude had a TEC-III controller and a number of other mods with his turbo setup, and had oil all through the blow off valve, that had been spraying it directly on to the side of the engine...plus a horrible intake/exhuast note...

We had both cars sitting side by side, both idling...removed the oil caps from both cars...The stock GT-S had very little gas coming out of the valve cover, noticable but nothing crazy...the turbo'd GT-S very much so did, accompanied by lots of oil, it was all over my hand after keeping it there for a few seconds...and you could hear the air swirling through the hole...I said that it was possibly cylinder leak down that was causing the blow by, and the next day a shop confirmed it with a leak down test...

It still may be that this is a bad way to confirm anything...but if there is "more than normal", it may give an idea of the problem...

And also, not to be picky, but there are plenty of non-japanese engines that have the same amount of moving parts on the top of the engine...
 

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