so i go to inspect the plugs i put in 2 weeks ago and they look loke this, is this normal??





so afterwards i inspect the pipes and come across this







should i be even more worried with this oil everywhere???

 

plugs idk, but oil i beleive is bad seals in the turbo. i could be wrong. im no expert just trying to help

 

not technically, it is prob just blow by, get a catch can........... if you think you might have a issue, do a compression/ leak down test.

 

i did a compression test. the 2 plugs towards the passenger side were perfect. the other two were kinda low

 

how low is low. .. give me all the readings!!!! 1-2-3-4 cylinders........ ect

 

hell i forgot exactly. i have to see if the tech remember


how are the cylinders numbered?

 

yeah that makes me want a catch can haha

 

1 is at the front (drive belts) 4 is at the Bellhousing (trans)

 

I would say that much oil is not normal. I'm on the stock pvc set up.

I've had my charge pipes on/off quite a bit at various stages of mileage, intercooler install, BOV install and most recently (last weekend) MAF relocation.

I have yet to see any visible oil at all in any of my charge pipes or on my couplers and I've had them all off/on at some point.

Yes I know your gonna get blow by, but thats alot if you ask me since its puddling.

 

The car is running lean.

 

150 150 130 140

 

The insulators on your plug look new (white), all of my insulators have been a nice light tanish white color and on the tip.

According to Spark plug charts mine are in the right heat range and normal.

 

so thats good? they look ok?

 

the insulator is the part curves?

 

Go read up on sparks plugs man, one of the best ways to tell how your car is running and its easy to do on the LNF.

google: spark plug color chart

 

Those spark plugs have no varnish. They look new. Do you have a tune, jaygo?

Edit: Nvm, I see you have a S-man tune. Datalog it and get him to look at it to see if you're running lean. Maybe it's just because they're basically new. What did your old plugs look like? The oil is no big deal, btw.

 

yea im tryin to find someone to tune me asap hopefully tomorrow.
the old plugs were toasted. let me see if i can find one

 

heres my first original set, had em in for 40k miles




here are the colder plugs i tried for 1k mikes



and heres another set of ac delco im running now

 

Dude...The plugs look fine to me.
In fact, the 40K mi plugs look pretty good...hard to see em cause they're a bit blurry.
As far as oil..it's comming from PCV back onto intake as far as I can tell...no biggie.
Pretty sure Compression variation is within specs.

 

The oil is normal - I have some in my 09 with just 12k on the motor. Noticed it when I put the CAI in. The plugs look "normal", but I'll add this - it looks normal for some of my older cars, but most of my fuel injected cars show a lot cleaner for the time you put on those plugs. I'd definitely suspect your tune may be a little off - well, off, or you're driving on them hard.

 

130# seems pretty low.

Example, I have TWO cracked pistons. One was COMPLETELY shot... only 30#. The other that was cracked (ring land was floating between the rings) read 128.

The plugs look fine to me though but that 130# is what would worry me.

 

Uhh that middle 40k plug doesn't look fine to me.

I hope you bent it back like that on top, and the wire coming out of the insulator looks half gone?

Did you accidentally break the wire trying to gap it or something? (Was this plug pulled from the 130# cylinder)?

I still say that much oil isn't normal, I don't have oil like that in my tract at any point in my IC system.

I've ran 26 psi on the stock K04 and 26 psi on the new BNR 2871.

I would think I'd have more blow by then you.

I'm not saying you won't have trace amounts of oil, but that seems a little much to me.

 

I don't have any experience with the LNF like these other guys do, but from your information, and the pics you've provided... you could solve your oil issue with a catch can, and those plugs look ok to me. One of your old plugs had like a 2" gap? Dunno what's up with that...

 

kendell (laser_racer) will tune you. Just call him or txt me and I'll give you his number. No one from our crew has ever complained about his tunes, and he's very reasonable with price.

 

im not driving the car hard at all. and that one plug i was messing around and just bent it since i was gonna throw em away.

lol i just texted him waiting on a reply