I have an 01 BB S2k, with roughly 136k on her.
Im getting a Turbo kit this weekend, for a pretty good deal.
My question is:
My car uses oil ( about a quart every oil 3k miles)I do drive the car HARD.
I added some lucas and it stopped, but I can still smell oil burning sometimes.( car has NO leaks anywhere)
I run Mobil drive clean 5000 10w-40, and the car has the infamous "random smoke issue" when coming to a stop or taking off but not in high rpm's.
I was debating on taking my intake off and cleaning it out thoroughly and bypassing the pcv valve with a catch can to see if it helped.
I also debated on changing the valve stem seals and changing the springs and retainers while I was at it.
There are a few Turbo S2k's local to me and they run Brad Penn 20-50 race oil, I was worried about running something that thick due to the small oil galleys in our engines.

Compression test went as follows:
#1-220
#2-230
#3-225
#4-230

So would you boost the car now ( not daily driven) or wait and send a spare block to Laskey down the road and go boost then?
Hmmmmmmm.

 

I'd boost it. My compression was around the same and I boosted at 132k. Granted my motor didn't last long after that (because of a shitty tune), make sure you get a really good tune.

The random smoke is a little concerning though. Usually random smoke when decelerating is something in the head. Maybe valve seals or something. Have a leak down done. If the numbers are good, eff it and boost it! Lol.

 

I learned my lesson about a good tuner... Colombia from CMB Tuning will most likely get my business.
If not him, Mase for sure!

 

Anyone else run 20-50 oil?

 

10w40 here. and if you dont boost it then its slow. so the real question is to be slow or not to be slow......

 

10w30 castrol titanium and booooooost it.

 

Smoke at Decel can be a bad pcv valve. Had a smoke decel issue with my turbo setup.

 

Hmmmm.

 

Boost her!