I'm looking into purchasing a 4dr SE Black on Black. I've got a baby on the way and need a 4 door since the 2 door Legend isn't going to cut it (but i'm still holding on to it). This is going to [hopefully] be my first teg and had a concern:

The only problem this car is having is that it recently started burning oil. He said that on roughly a 200 mile highway drive, it burns about 1/2 qt of oil. And it only burns oil in those quantities when he is on the highway, not in town.

I have no idea really where to start. The car has 190k on it, always dealer serviced, 2 owner, few tasteful mods (tein s-techs, gsr fat5's, dc header, CAI, and greddy sp2), and i'd like to buy it for what he's asking.

What are problem areas in the motor that might cause it to burn oil? Intake manifold gasket? Valve seals? etc?

I'm trusting theres enough experienced members lurking that someone is bound to have been through this same situation.

Thanks in advance

 

It probably needs piston rings and a valve job. thats my guess.

 

Expensive job?

 

rings, seals... very likely.
I would be wary. It could be worse than that if it's burning oil consistently.
Hopefully that motor wasn't as bad as mine, but i finally had to get my motor rebuilt completely because as it turned out, there were warped valves and the works... And mine started burning oil slowly but got worse progressively.

I will never underestimate oil loss again.

 

how are you able to tell exactly how much oil is being burned? the dipstick on the integra isnt exactly a highly accurate mesuring device.

 

before you spend alot of $$ try putting lucas oil or some sort of heavy oil stabilizier in your engine oil..should help

 

Well crap. I think i may still pick this car up. Worse case scenario, pick up a low mile LS motor and drop it in. Those are cheap aren't they?

 

relatively cheap yes.

there's a good possibility that motor is on its way out, so definitely keep it in mind if you buy it..

 

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Yup

 

hmm well... do you think 2500 is a good deal for the car?

 

what year by the way? you sure your baby gonna like the greddy sp2 LOL

 

Its a 95. Greddy will be taken off and put back to stock immediately. He has all the stock parts still

 

buy it and drop new motor

the old motor....rebuild for turbo or ls vtec

 

Yes, I'm sure rebuilding the old motor for turbo or lsvtec is really high on his priority list..