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I have a 2014 Evo X GSR with 57k miles and its basically stock with just AMS Intercooler with piping, AMS Intake, Tial BOV, and a catless test pipe with exhaust tuned by Blueprint at 348whp/ 350tq. I went to do my oil change a few days ago at my 3k interval but ended up doing it around 3500 miles cause I was busy. When I drained the oil, it looked good for it being dirty with no shavings or flakes in the drain pan or on the magnetic drain plug have but when I went to throw the oil into the old Mobil 1 5W30 container I just used to fill new oil in with, the oil only filled up to around the 4.2-4.3qts line.
I know that Evo's aren't supposed to burn any oil at all but I was wondering what my issues could be? This is the second time in a row my oil change was a little less than 5qts after draining and that's with the filter as well. I had to buy a single quart to fill up a little cause the oil was on the lower side of the dipstick as well a few months back.
As I did the oil change, I didn't notice any leakage anywhere and I don't have any smoke from the exhaust.
I did notice that when I went to open my hood before the oil change that it was very very hot inside. I also have been having an issue where my temp gauge for the weather has been reading high. For Example it was 75F out and it was reading 95F+.
I have a compression and leak down test coming here tomorrow but I wanted some more input or if anyone else has the same issue.
You should be checking the oil every 500 miles or so. You (maybe) burned 1 or 1.5 quarts of oil in 3500 miles, which is completely fine and normal. But you should be checking your oil level much more often and topping it off as needed.