Dont be fooled because you drove the car. I know guys who have driven around for a few days on a blown engine.



Sounds like it popped if you ask me.

 

Do you have a downpipe? Stock cat? One of them could be clogged. STOP DRIVING THE CAR in any case until you diagnose the problem...

 

Yup, stop driving and get a compression test.

 

Blow-by (credit to Fd3BOOST for thinking of it first) sounds like the most probably culprit. This is why the aftermarket created oil catch tanks, specifically to catch the oil that gets sputtered out when needing to bleed off pressurized air (crankcase on piston engines, don't know what the equivalent on rotaries are, will need help from you guys on all the new terminology!). If you are getting excessive oil in the blow-by, you may want to start looking and why that's happening. Typically it happens a lot more if you drive at WOT and let off throttle and do that over and over.

 

Alot of blow by on 3rd gens is generally a sign of your turbos getting old. I think that most stock twins with about 10k on them will start blowing off oil. The older the seals in them get the worse the blow by gets.

But that still doesnt explain the car not being able to idle.



I think he has two seperat issues.

I dont think that the oil in the intake is his problem.

Most likely that was already there and he just now took notice since he had to get in there and see why the car will not make any power and idle properly..





Again,.....COMPRESSION TEST THE ENGINE.

 

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/ind...showtopic=2551

 

I will do the compression test and then figure out from there. I think your right, it may be two separate problems. i will check my TB to make sure eveything is connected correctly.

 

I did the compression test and it seems to be fine.