it seems my car is burning oil but it doesn't smoke. all stock car so far except for catback exhaust. i rarely drive the car so when i do i drive it pretty hard. does it have to do with vtec? cause when i do drive the car i do hit vtec A LOT. it doesn't use a lot but if i was to drive it for couple days fairly hard cause i don't drive it much then i check the oil it's a little low.

 

it is a well known fact that b16a engine does burn a bit oil. or u can do a compression test on all the cylinders.

 

how hard is it to do a compression test? i'm gonna be putting on a turbo kit here soon. not running high boost just 7-8 psi but wanna make sure the motors fine first.

 

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actually to determine if you are losing oil via your oil control rings you need to perform a leakdown test.

 

okay and how hard is that? is this a serious issue? should i get it checked before i bolt on the turbo?

 

running high revs does burn oil.

 

i run my car in high revs most of time

 

but how many quarts of oil you be burning a month? it shouldnt be to an extent that you need to put in a quart every month.

 

running high revs is one of many differnt reasons of buring oil. i pretty sure ur loosing ur oil because of that. maybe u also have to replace ur O rings also. it should be done every 100,000 miles anyways

 

yea.. how much r u buring? if it gets dramatically low in a short period of time.. its not juss revin high

 

after about 2 weeks of driving it hard i put in maybe half a quart of oil