Anybody else having an oiling problem like me?
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Racer
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Anybody else having an oiling problem like me?
I have an A&A SI-V3 supercharger. I put my car on the hoist yesterday and found a lot of oil under the car. A closer inspection seems to have the oil coming from the air cleaner. It appears the oil is being sucked into the air cleaner and then blown everywhere else. What do I have to do to fix the problem? Do I need an oil catch can?
See:
The above picture is hard to see but the condensers for the air conditioner is literally plugged with oil and dirt.
See:
The above picture is hard to see but the condensers for the air conditioner is literally plugged with oil and dirt.
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I suspect this is blowby, if it is ending up on the air cleaner through the oil cap vent line. My car doesn't do this because I am running both vent lines to ground. A catch can would accomplish the same thing.
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Racer
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Steve if you look at the last picture that I posted you can see the oil on the air conditioner condenser.
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Steve what plastic air bridge are you talking about? Do you have any pics? I was thinking about installing a catch can between the line that runs to the air cleaner up front. That was the line that went to the accordion from the factory.
Steve if you look at the last picture that I posted you can see the oil on the air conditioner condenser.
Steve if you look at the last picture that I posted you can see the oil on the air conditioner condenser.
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I would check the intake like Steve said. It will show whether it's coming out the front seal or if it's blow by coming from the line from the valve cover oil cap.
I originally had an engine oil fed Paxton. It leaked out the front seal and was sent back to Vortech for rebuilds twice. Never definitively figured out what the problem was as I upgraded to the self contained unit and the problem was solved. I suspect that it was not draining properly even though the drain line looked good (no uphill bends) so oil would back up in the head unit and have nowhere else to go bout out the front seal.
Your pics don't look like what mine did though.
I originally had an engine oil fed Paxton. It leaked out the front seal and was sent back to Vortech for rebuilds twice. Never definitively figured out what the problem was as I upgraded to the self contained unit and the problem was solved. I suspect that it was not draining properly even though the drain line looked good (no uphill bends) so oil would back up in the head unit and have nowhere else to go bout out the front seal.
Your pics don't look like what mine did though.
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