Oil In Intercooler-piping!!!

[allspooledup]

Yesterday i was racing a wrx from a 30 mph roll in second gear and raced him all the way to 100mph and pulled 1.5 cars on him. Sounds great so far right?.......Anywho..once i hit 100 i let off the gas and Whamo!~ i looked behind me and my car looked like one of thoes acrobatic airplanes at an air show with the white smoke...just a stream of thick white smoke from my exhaust. All the way untill i stopped. 10 min later i was at the mazda dealership. they took it in today at 5pm and said they will look at it first thing tomorrow morning and they gave me a loaner car...i asked the service manager what he thought it was and they wouldnt give me a strait answer. when i poped the hood there was oil on flame resistant thingy under the hood, right under the blow off valve. I have a greddy type s and its atmospheric. so i felt the inside of it and there was oil all inside of it. I think the oil line that goes to the turbo, or something inside the turbo, broke and therefore is letting oil inside the compressor turbine and pushing oil into the motor. That means there is oil all in my intercooler piping, in the spearco front mount intercooler. and all in my intake manifold and throtle body. Any body agree with me on that or have any comments?????? its been 6 hours and i miss my msp!!!!!!!

 

[boostisgood]

IF your turbo was bad, it wouldnt turn, and you would hear it grinding. Have them do a leak down test, It sounds like it could very easily be a bad oil seal ring on one of your pistons. Or a blown head gasket. Sorry to hear this bro, and good luck with getting it squared away.

 

[allspooledup]

the turbo still spools up fine and everything accordint to my boost guage im still getting 8 lbs.... and i dont think its a head gasket because the oil is IN the intercooler piping and in the intercooler and there is no way for it to get in there except for the oil in the turbo...

 

[boostisgood]

no, it can be an internally blwon gasket, which will allow the oil and or antifreeze to leak into the cylinder. you wont see it on the outside of the engine, but its leaking into the combustion chamber. Thats why you were seeing the white smoke. Check the oil and see if there is water in it, if so, its deffinitly the head gasket.

 

[boostisgood]

uhhh, just read the inside the IC piping part. Ummmm, it could also be blow by from the crankcase breather, that goes to the intake piping, if you still have that connected.

 

[allspooledup]

i cant check anything its in the shop sleeping right now...hehe but that is true...

 

[allspooledup]

u mean the line that runs from the top of the motor to the intake? i thought of checking that..but it didnt dawn on me...also i had just changed the oil myself..do u think that having to much oil in it would cause it to over flow and make the excess oil go out the oil breather line that goes to the intake? thats another thing i was thinkin bout...

 

[03MSP]

When my headgasket blew(in my MX-6) I left a shitload of smoke go, but that wouldn't really explain the oil in the I/C piping.

 

[boostisgood]

u mean the line that runs from the top of the motor to the intake? i thought of checking that..but it didnt dawn on me...also i had just changed the oil myself..do u think that having to much oil in it would cause it to over flow and make the excess oil go out the oil breather line that goes to the intake? thats another thing i was thinkin bout...

WE HAVE A WINNER>>>>>>>DING DING DING DING DING.

That would do it. How many quarts did you put in it ?

 

[allspooledup]

boostisgood....do u think that is what is causing it??? to much oil and it overflows out the breather line back into the turbo..???it just dawned on me now.....?

 

[allspooledup]

hahahaah ummm i didnt change the filter cuz i only had 2500 mils on that oil and i put in 3 and 3/4 quarts....

 

[allspooledup]

i used royal purple..and when i checked it, i couldnt really tell where the level was but it was up to the full mark if not past it..

 

[boostisgood]

That very easily could be the issue. Especially while pushing the engine hard. The oil cant drain fast enough to the pan, therefore it is blown by, into the intake track.

An oil catch can easily avoid this, I would suggest investing in a good quality one, like the Greddy.

 

[allspooledup]

ill sugest that to them tomorrow and see what happens...

 

[allspooledup]

hey thanks alot for the help man.....well see what they say tomorrow....

 

[boostisgood]

Yup, good luck bro. I hope it was just mad blowby, that way, all you gotta do is clean out your intake piping, and IC. ALOT less expensive then rebuilding an engine.

 

[jred321]

An oil catch can easily avoid this, I would suggest investing in a good quality one, like the Greddy.

or if you like the cheap route, an inline fuel filter will do the same

 

[03MSP]

or if you like the cheap route, an inline fuel filter will do the same

Hmmm, I never thought of that...THANKS

 

[BremertonMSP]

I'm guessing blown oil seal in the turbo or something with the PCV system. I'm not thinking blown head gasket, because the car would run like crap if that happened. Sounded like he drove it to the dealership after the incident and indicated it was still boosting to 8psi.

Just guessing

 

[chitownballer]

um you took it to the dealer? wouldnt they void your warranty for all that stuff on the car?