"Little Black Coupe Turned Silver" (littleblackcoupe)
05/01/2016 at 22:08 • Filed to: None
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"Little Black Coupe Turned Silver" (littleblackcoupe)
05/01/2016 at 22:08 • Filed to: None | 1
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As I mentioned !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I was blasting around Road America yesterday and today. This is what greeted me at the end of a wicked fast session.
The dipstick showed that I didn’t loose much oil, which is good. Not sure where it’s coming from, possibly the cap itself or a spark plug. I live close enough to the track I took it easy and drove it home, so I’ll look into it some more soon.
Also found I have a wicked exhaust leak, which happened the same session as the oil leak.
Track cars!
crowmolly
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/01/2016 at 22:15 |
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Is that cover baffled? I wonder if oil sloshes to the cap end on hard cornering, and out it comes.
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Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
> crowmolly
05/01/2016 at 22:20 |
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That is what a friend suggested as well. I have no idea about if it is or not.
Tristan
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/01/2016 at 22:40 |
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Not sure on this engine, but on some chain-driven OHC engines the timing chain can act as a conveyor and fill the top of the head with oil with sustained high RPM. Combine that tendency with the higher crankcase pressures from hard driving and it’s easy to see how you could have a bit of oil sneak past the fill cap.
derf
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/01/2016 at 22:40 |
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Boo-urns. Hope you can get it sorted out soon. If it is the cap under sustained lateral Gs, how would you test it?
I had some G-load related problems yesterday during autocross test and tune, but
my eyeball
was the problem, not my car.
Gone
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/01/2016 at 22:53 |
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Probably the cap. Time for a catch can setup.
TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/01/2016 at 23:48 |
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do you have good crankcase venting? if not it can push the dipstick out a little and spray oil like that
Nimbus The Legend - Riding on air like a cloud
> Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
05/03/2016 at 15:57 |
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it looks like the cap, maybe couldnt handle the pressure...