Picked up my car on Friday from nearly 5 weeks of being at the builder. the motor is a stock block 2014 with lowered compression 9.6:1, fully built bottom end with billet oil pump gears abd an 82mm pulley TVS setup. On the drive back from the builder I notice a smell and smoke out of the exhaust. I got the car home and confrimed it was not coming from the tail pipes. It turns out there is oil leaking from the driver side head area and dripping on to the header and burning off. It only leaks while the motor is running and it leaks like a sieve, I lost a liter of oil on a 30 km drive.
I put the car up on jack stands and had a closer look, I still cannot see the exact area where it is leaking, but I am guessing it is a head gasket failure. My experience with head gasket failures is usually shot compression between cylinders, or coolant in the oil. Regardless it has a two year warranty and the builder will need to fix it.
My experience thus far has not been as good as I would have hoped with this new motor. I have newly purchased cats that are now bad, wrong sized pulley that was installed on the blower, incorrectly wired IAT sensor, hole punched in the rad and now this.
Mike
I put the car up on jack stands and had a closer look, I still cannot see the exact area where it is leaking, but I am guessing it is a head gasket failure. My experience with head gasket failures is usually shot compression between cylinders, or coolant in the oil. Regardless it has a two year warranty and the builder will need to fix it.
My experience thus far has not been as good as I would have hoped with this new motor. I have newly purchased cats that are now bad, wrong sized pulley that was installed on the blower, incorrectly wired IAT sensor, hole punched in the rad and now this.
Mike
