What does 1/4 a quart of oil look like on your windshield?
What does 1/4 a quart of oil look like on your windshield?
At least it was immediately visible! This way you can at least pull off and fix it.
Just thought this would be a good place to share this bit of info I received a the track - To keep a good eye on overheating or a dead HG simply route your coolant overflow hose to the windshield between the hood and the bottom of the glass. When you overheat/overpressurize it will spout out that hole and you can immediately back off. Prevents any serious damage. When my HG started to go earlier in the season this modification saved my engine. Very simple and cheap thing to do and it's a life saver.
Just thought this would be a good place to share this bit of info I received a the track - To keep a good eye on overheating or a dead HG simply route your coolant overflow hose to the windshield between the hood and the bottom of the glass. When you overheat/overpressurize it will spout out that hole and you can immediately back off. Prevents any serious damage. When my HG started to go earlier in the season this modification saved my engine. Very simple and cheap thing to do and it's a life saver.
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By the way again,
If any of you have this problem because you've modified your PCV system or perhaps your PCV is just acting up I would reccomend going down this route:
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/52210/10002/-1
Keep the line that goes from your valve cover to your intake, but replace the line that goes to your intake manifold from yor valve cover with this line that goes to the exhaust. If any of you are engineers you will understand how the venturi effect makes this work. I've had this on my car for 3 years now. For the first 2 years the car was dual purpose and now its' just a track car. In both street and track mode I've never had a problem. I've run the stock turbo at high boost all the way up the back straight at VIR numerous times with no crank pressure issues. On top of that I don't need a catch can there. This thing really does work.
**I would not reccomend it for any car with a stockish exhaust that would have any measurable back pressure. It works on the principal of exhaust velocity so you have to be confident that you have a very free flowing exhaust. Also, please be sure to put it downstream of your WB.
If any of you have this problem because you've modified your PCV system or perhaps your PCV is just acting up I would reccomend going down this route:
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/52210/10002/-1
Keep the line that goes from your valve cover to your intake, but replace the line that goes to your intake manifold from yor valve cover with this line that goes to the exhaust. If any of you are engineers you will understand how the venturi effect makes this work. I've had this on my car for 3 years now. For the first 2 years the car was dual purpose and now its' just a track car. In both street and track mode I've never had a problem. I've run the stock turbo at high boost all the way up the back straight at VIR numerous times with no crank pressure issues. On top of that I don't need a catch can there. This thing really does work.
**I would not reccomend it for any car with a stockish exhaust that would have any measurable back pressure. It works on the principal of exhaust velocity so you have to be confident that you have a very free flowing exhaust. Also, please be sure to put it downstream of your WB.
Make that me Three...
I was running lower than street boost at only 24-25 psi and after my warmup lap on my first session I saw a mess of oil spraying my passenger side windshield. Sure enough it ended up being my dipstick popping out somehow. With some testing I noticed that 9/10 times that you inserted the oil dipstick it would lock in place, but 1/10 of the time it would be very loose with almost no resistance. Likely I checked my oil before heading on the track and just didn't verify it had locked in place. :/
I also extended my breather line and it may have gotten crimped under my intake piping. Ever since I hooked up a non collapsable line it's been fine but it sure made a mess and almost caught my ETS headers on fire since they were wrapped.
I was running lower than street boost at only 24-25 psi and after my warmup lap on my first session I saw a mess of oil spraying my passenger side windshield. Sure enough it ended up being my dipstick popping out somehow. With some testing I noticed that 9/10 times that you inserted the oil dipstick it would lock in place, but 1/10 of the time it would be very loose with almost no resistance. Likely I checked my oil before heading on the track and just didn't verify it had locked in place. :/
I also extended my breather line and it may have gotten crimped under my intake piping. Ever since I hooked up a non collapsable line it's been fine but it sure made a mess and almost caught my ETS headers on fire since they were wrapped.
Make that me Three...
I was running lower than street boost at only 24-25 psi and after my warmup lap on my first session I saw a mess of oil spraying my passenger side windshield. Sure enough it ended up being my dipstick popping out somehow. With some testing I noticed that 9/10 times that you inserted the oil dipstick it would lock in place, but 1/10 of the time it would be very loose with almost no resistance. Likely I checked my oil before heading on the track and just didn't verify it had locked in place. :/
I also extended my breather line and it may have gotten crimped under my intake piping. Ever since I hooked up a non collapsable line it's been fine but it sure made a mess and almost caught my ETS headers on fire since they were wrapped.
I was running lower than street boost at only 24-25 psi and after my warmup lap on my first session I saw a mess of oil spraying my passenger side windshield. Sure enough it ended up being my dipstick popping out somehow. With some testing I noticed that 9/10 times that you inserted the oil dipstick it would lock in place, but 1/10 of the time it would be very loose with almost no resistance. Likely I checked my oil before heading on the track and just didn't verify it had locked in place. :/
I also extended my breather line and it may have gotten crimped under my intake piping. Ever since I hooked up a non collapsable line it's been fine but it sure made a mess and almost caught my ETS headers on fire since they were wrapped.
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By the way again,
If any of you have this problem because you've modified your PCV system or perhaps your PCV is just acting up I would reccomend going down this route:
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/52210/10002/-1
Keep the line that goes from your valve cover to your intake, but replace the line that goes to your intake manifold from yor valve cover with this line that goes to the exhaust. If any of you are engineers you will understand how the venturi effect makes this work. I've had this on my car for 3 years now. For the first 2 years the car was dual purpose and now its' just a track car. In both street and track mode I've never had a problem. I've run the stock turbo at high boost all the way up the back straight at VIR numerous times with no crank pressure issues. On top of that I don't need a catch can there. This thing really does work.
**I would not reccomend it for any car with a stockish exhaust that would have any measurable back pressure. It works on the principal of exhaust velocity so you have to be confident that you have a very free flowing exhaust. Also, please be sure to put it downstream of your WB.
If any of you have this problem because you've modified your PCV system or perhaps your PCV is just acting up I would reccomend going down this route:
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/52210/10002/-1
Keep the line that goes from your valve cover to your intake, but replace the line that goes to your intake manifold from yor valve cover with this line that goes to the exhaust. If any of you are engineers you will understand how the venturi effect makes this work. I've had this on my car for 3 years now. For the first 2 years the car was dual purpose and now its' just a track car. In both street and track mode I've never had a problem. I've run the stock turbo at high boost all the way up the back straight at VIR numerous times with no crank pressure issues. On top of that I don't need a catch can there. This thing really does work.
**I would not reccomend it for any car with a stockish exhaust that would have any measurable back pressure. It works on the principal of exhaust velocity so you have to be confident that you have a very free flowing exhaust. Also, please be sure to put it downstream of your WB.
At least it was immediately visible! This way you can at least pull off and fix it.
Just thought this would be a good place to share this bit of info I received a the track - To keep a good eye on overheating or a dead HG simply route your coolant overflow hose to the windshield between the hood and the bottom of the glass. When you overheat/overpressurize it will spout out that hole and you can immediately back off. Prevents any serious damage. When my HG started to go earlier in the season this modification saved my engine. Very simple and cheap thing to do and it's a life saver.
Just thought this would be a good place to share this bit of info I received a the track - To keep a good eye on overheating or a dead HG simply route your coolant overflow hose to the windshield between the hood and the bottom of the glass. When you overheat/overpressurize it will spout out that hole and you can immediately back off. Prevents any serious damage. When my HG started to go earlier in the season this modification saved my engine. Very simple and cheap thing to do and it's a life saver.
