I am runnning 8psi on a turboed b16a2 in a 97 hatch and my air fuel ratio reads that everything is okay but you can smell alot of fuel through the exhaust and in the oil on the dip stick. What do i do to fix this problem? I also have a vfac any help is aprectated....

 

its not good if your dipstick smells like gas. bad ring seal = blowby
blowby + running rich = gassy smell = bad ring seal....yeah

 

Just curious... ring-seal???

 

TTT

 

ring seal = piston rings sealing to the cylinder wall

 

gotcha

 

how hard is it to fix that.... can i do it myself.....

 

this is pretty basic info, you should have took more time to research what you are doing before you built/bought a boosted car. To fix this you have to pull the engine block apart, hone the cyclinders, and replace the piston rings. You cant do it yourself and it is expensive, depending on who you know

 

eh.....you can installing piston rings urself! lol. well maybe u cant but someone who is educated with motors can

 

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before you assume anything as far as poor ring seal... do a compression test.. if you come back with positive results then its not the ring seal. Plus, blowby results usually in white smoke coming out of the exhaust and through the valve cover nipple

 

it blows out black smoke and not white...... i don't think that it is the ring seal any other ideas....

 

you can intsall cast iron rings yourself if your cylinder walls are decent, but i would not ever replace any rings with cast iron. Put in chrome rings without having the cylinder walls honed and they will probably never seat right

 

thanks for the help..... we are goin to try and see what we can do... we have the tools and a place to do it so we are going to probally give it a shot...