saikouEF8

ok heres the deal:

I used Engine restore a few days ago... worked awesome. car feels great.

i drive an hour each way to work and the car felt especially awesome on the highway to and from work....

problem:

i was running out of gas lastnight and i rode E for a couple miles on my way home because i didnt feel like getting gas. A few blocks from my house the OIL LIGHT starts flickering while im stopped... so im thinking its maybe cuz i need gas cuz i know the car dumps more fuel to keep the car on when ur at idle... but why the oil light? so i just drove home. turned the car off then on... no oil light. so im thinig its a ghost in the machine and i go inside to bed.

today i woke up and i had to take my dog to the vet. i get gas...im driving and about 20 minutes into the drive the oil light flicker comes back on while im at a stop light. i start pumping my brakes and the light goes off when i do that....so im like wtf and i get to the vet then i go home.. the car was doing the same **** the whole way.

i jumped on here and looked up some experiences with engine restore but i didnt find anything out of the ordinary except for something about engine restore creating air gaps in the oil. so i go outside and add more oil and let the car run for a while. no flicker. then i get in the car and drive around... after about 20 mins it does the same damn thing. .. flickering oil light at stops.

HT any ideas why? also... the car feels awesome...after i added the engine restore it realys feels like i added another 10-15 horse... i had the oil light flicker before on another engine and it turned out i spun all my bearings out of nowhere... but i knew the car was fucked cuz when i left off the gas u could feel and hear the engine getting fucked up. this is my second b18b. any advice?

** edit ** hearing a vacuum hiss from my brake booster! fyi ..recently replaced interior pedals...

Riake

I know you added more oil but are you sure on the level? Maybe the restore opened some seals and you burnt a little oil in the process. Check the level, maybe the sensor is going, maybe your pump is starting to fail, could be a variety of things.

I know this doesnt relate to you but when I teed my oil lines for my turbo, if I had the stock sensor at the end it would see pressure because the turbo was taking all the oil and it started to flicker. So I then moved it and the flicker went away. Try a few things, maybe the wiring on the sensor is loose. good luck

saikouEF8

i c... well the pump was a brand new type r pump that i installed in when i did the swap... pump has only like 20k or less on it now. i hope the engine isnt done. ill try a few things. im suspecting theres a clog somewhere... maybe the the pickup... i dunno...im gonna change the oil... maybe even get an engine flush done...i dont even wanna mess with it until friday when i have time and money. luckily im off 2morrow.

sauceja

I was going to say change the oil but too late.

Check wiring or maybe your sensor has some crud in it and can't read right. Take it out and clean it with carb cleaner.