HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Ok so heres the problem ive been having. first off the oil pan gasket will not seal no matter what I do to it. I also had a small overheating problem where it would only do it once every week and go upto like 220 at the most for a second then go back down to normal. so i looked into it and came to find that it was the HG slightly leaking a tiny *** little bit to where the leak down test only had 1% leak on all 4 cyl and on each one it would bubble once every few seconds in the radiator go figure right. and so i started taking the turbo off to change the HG and foud a little bit of oil in each exh port and there was also a tiny bit of oil on the plug tips. my question is could all this oil leaking be because of the bad HG? i thought maybe rings but with only 1% leak and 180psi on all four for a motor with 3000 miles i couldn't see it being them. plus the things pulls great and drive great even when i took it to the track no smoking or A/F problems.
my setup is as follows..

-ITR head & Benson 84mm block (both straight)
-Wiseco IB spec pistons
-endyne breather kit
-greddy kit @ 16lbs
-3" elbow back

when i got the head off the walls looked great, i don't have a problem with spending the money on new rings just to have a piece of mind but don't want to risk the new ones not seating at 1% because the walls are not 100% new like when i broke the engine in. any thoughts would be great.
-thanks alot
todd

 

are you running head studs?
the head could be lifting to make that 1% leakdown a bigger problem
as far as the oil pan...
are you sure that your not over trq-ing them?
that is the most common mistake that i see
has happened to me in the past...

 

yea im running ARP studs it lifted a little because when i put it together i used oil as lube cause i didn't have ARP lube and torqued them to factory specs :x oopse.

i don't think that im over torquing the pan gasket cause im using a torque wrench. are there any tips or tricks that seem to work? im not using any kind of RTV because when i first tore the car down from stock there wasn't any on there so i figured you don't need any

but do you think the HG leaking could get oil into the exh ports though?

 

b20s are famouus for block pressure sounds like you need a evap setup to get ride of the excess pressures

 

its b16a2 and i got the endyne breather kit. shouldn't that be enough or should i also do one for the valve cover?