I havent had any issue with the dryer im using. It runs half inch fittings so its hard to imagine it being to restrictive.

 

No way is there enough oil that it can't spark it, it's not misfiring. You're partially correct.

 

I could only assume a power issue, something loose in the ignition etc. perhaps.

The blue smoke is expected if you cut power during the motor running, you had a bunch of fuel in the chamber and in the exhaust pipe and then you fired it up. No surprise.

 

The PVC will create a puff of blue smoke and it really shouldn't cause any issues otherwise as long as it's just a little oil. An extended left corner can run your oil pickup dry potentially and that can cause smoking for a very bad reason... oil starvation and overheating of oil, generally baffles and pumps can help with this but MOST IMPORTANT is making sure oil is absolutely topped off to the limit because even a baffled system running at the 50% line is severely compromised in comparison to a stock oil pan 100% topped off.

 

Well, that sounds pretty much exactly what happened to me. It's a long left hand sweeper. At high rpms it would happen. At low rpms it wouldn't. Speed and g-forces the same.

It's hard for me to believe it's an oil pickup problem as the sweeper is only about 6 sec long, and although high rpms will draw more oil, I wouldn't think that much more, to cause starvation, but I think enough to foul the plugs.

Considering the huge clouds of blue smoke afterward, I'm thinking lots of oil got into the combustion chamber and was being burned off once I straightened out. Seems easy to imagine enough oil got in there to foul the plugs, preventing ignition, and the loss of power follows.

There's another much shorter left sweeper, were at high rpms, not low, I'd get the smoke, but nowhere near as much, and no loss of power, presumably because not enough oil entered the chamber to prevent ignition.

Also, considering I got some oil seepage from the PCV valve and from the cap which wasn't on extremely tight, this also makes sense.

As an aside....It's hard to believe that after 13 years of this car being on the market, that there isn't a definitive answer, and not so much conjecture. If there was a high budget race car team, this would have been figured out in a weekend.

 

lol at the last comment, people that race are spending their time racing

I'm surprised how much is unknown with this and other things as well.

 

I guess it's also a reflection of that while there are many guys who "race" their S2000's, when you think about it, the car and the engine never really competed in any professional series' to any great extent, correct?

 

Yes. At Streets of Willow. Top of 2nd gear, turning left.

 

The AP2 valve cover has a different PCV design, and in theory it is supposed to reduce oil consumption.

 

Some AP2's are fine and some aren't, my 06 was fine but my 07 wasn't