Engine Oil keeps Vanishing!
- Aston Wards
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hey i see that you have two cars
what is that like owning more than one vehicle?
do you switch it up to go to work depending on your mood?
mazda on tuesday, nissan on wednesday?
coz i for sure would be upgrading to a nastier whip when i get paid more someday,
but at the same time i wanna keep the precidia in its own garage for show
how does it feel
what is that like owning more than one vehicle?
do you switch it up to go to work depending on your mood?
mazda on tuesday, nissan on wednesday?
coz i for sure would be upgrading to a nastier whip when i get paid more someday,
but at the same time i wanna keep the precidia in its own garage for show
how does it feel
- Aston Wards
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lol, i wouldn't know, it's rare for them both to be going!
The Z is a long term project car, the engine, gearbox, and suspension are finished, now it's just the interior, paint, and some kinda sound system to go, it's just coming into summer now, so i might sneak it out now and then
I love my Presso, i've had it for a while now, spent waaay too much money keeping it going, i really should sell it, but....
The Mazda is great for what it is, but the Z is seriously fast, if you're planning to upgrade in the future, i'd advise you to reconsider the ZE-swap, that money could go towards your new, faster car...., just my 2c tho
The Z is a long term project car, the engine, gearbox, and suspension are finished, now it's just the interior, paint, and some kinda sound system to go, it's just coming into summer now, so i might sneak it out now and then
I love my Presso, i've had it for a while now, spent waaay too much money keeping it going, i really should sell it, but....
The Mazda is great for what it is, but the Z is seriously fast, if you're planning to upgrade in the future, i'd advise you to reconsider the ZE-swap, that money could go towards your new, faster car...., just my 2c tho
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heh heh, the O2 sensors can give intermittent cel's like that, a few years back, mine would only do it on the highways at certain speeds a few seconds at a time, when's the last time you changed it/them?
drove through some standing water once and ended up with a few drops of water in my dist cap from the dist cap gasket being cracked, very very poor performance, no cels though, remove the dist cap and blowout with compressed air...
drove through some standing water once and ended up with a few drops of water in my dist cap from the dist cap gasket being cracked, very very poor performance, no cels though, remove the dist cap and blowout with compressed air...
93MX3-B6ME, homegrown matching on my intake and head, HiFlow-Cat > 2.25" > no res. > Truck Muffler from Meineke (a.k.a. Mexican Flowmaster), 4 wheels with accompanying tires...<br>
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I wasn't implying that the sensors had suffered any water damage, just the sole fact that they can give the intermittent cel's that come and go as you are driving...
The point i was making on the water issue was strickly for your distributor/distributor cap and their well-being, any water or moisture in there can cause it to act really funny.
Regardless of what code your ecu is giving you, for the love of mike, change your O2 sensors, as they are one of the contributing variables to air/fuel mixture calculations...
from another post of mine:
The point i was making on the water issue was strickly for your distributor/distributor cap and their well-being, any water or moisture in there can cause it to act really funny.
Regardless of what code your ecu is giving you, for the love of mike, change your O2 sensors, as they are one of the contributing variables to air/fuel mixture calculations...
from another post of mine:
It's good practice, besides, you get a new tool to add to your collection to change em out... (don't worry it's inexpensive, but damn near necessary to remove and install without damaging your new sensors)O2 sensors? I go by the sign at the parts store that tells me to change it [Change your O2 Sensor every 60,000 miles, blah blah blah, etc, etc...]
i do it every year, just because now...
93MX3-B6ME, homegrown matching on my intake and head, HiFlow-Cat > 2.25" > no res. > Truck Muffler from Meineke (a.k.a. Mexican Flowmaster), 4 wheels with accompanying tires...<br>
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OMG i cant believe you payed mazda to read the codes.. itnonly take slike hm 3 minutes and a paperclip.. yeah replace o2..
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MX-3 w/ curved neck millenia klde, boosted @ 5 psi. /bov and wastegate are good!/ nitto drag radial/ gutted interior/ millenia red top injectors, vortech fmu/aem wideband/ all bolts ons/ Car put together 100% by me. Mechanic? who needs a mechanic? ew.. real men work on their own cars!
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Re: Engine Oil keeps Vanishing!
What do your sparkplug look like? The valve guides and stem seals on the K series engines are know to leaking especially on the exhaust side. They leak only under pressure and don't leak enough into the combustion chamber before the ignition stroke so doesn't usually burn blue. The oil gets gets broken down in the Cat and becomes a thick black soot. The biggest problem with this is that the cat matrix slowly becomes blocked up and the plugs become fouled. The tips of the plugs will tell you a lot about when is going on is side your engine.
illapino wrote:I check it in the morning so it is proven.
My engine oil keeps vanishing, i have no clue where.
Someone throttled it once and no oil came out the muffler
so he deduced that i wasn't losing oil.
well it is proven.
i fill it on day 1 with 10W30 all the way to Full.
and by day 4 it is just above Low.
So if I'm losing oil, where the heck is it going?
nothing dripping from the bottom of the car.
my head gaskets need to be replaced, but no fresh oil seeps out of them
any thoughts?
better yet, solutions to stop me from spending $7 on oil every week?
(there is a drastic performance loss noticeable when the oil gets low.
when it's full, my v6 has devilish bottom-end torque, but not so when low.
just for ur info)