Recently I've swapped in a B16A2 from a 2000 SiR (135,000 actual km's on it) into my EK hatch and I'm now having problems.

When I purchased the motor and did a compression test, the numbers came out between 175-180psi across the board. I thought that to be pretty good so I swapped it in about 3 weeks ago.

The thing fired up right away and ran great. Then I started to notice something after slowly easing into the power after taking it easy on it for the first little while; blue smoke out the back under power (6k+ RPM and puffs in between shifts). After average driving hitting vtec every once and a while, the thing goes through a quart of oil over 3-4 days! It does however run great, pulls pretty good, and get decent gas milage. It doesn't puff smoke idling or during moderate driving really.

So I just did another compression test and I'd like some feedback from the results:

DRY
CYL 1 - 180
CYL 2 - 175
CYL 3 - 175
CYL 4 - 185

WET (about 2 tbs oil/cyl)
CYL 1 - 220
CYL 2 - 225
CYL 3 - 210
CYL 4 - 210

Rings more than likely? Head problems?

What's the best course of action? I use the car for occasional daily driving and on the track about 5-6 times a year. I don't need ultimate power, but rather reliable power that will take the odd abuse it gets on the track.

Thanks for looking!

 

leakdown???

 

im thinking maybe valve seals dost it smoke on de-acceleration ?

 

I haven't done a leak down test, just the wet/dry compression test.

Would valve seals cause it to burn that much oil though? It really only smokes (to the point where you can see it) when you get on it.

Thanks.

 

yes valve seals could cause that problem

 

But with the wet/dry compression test results it looks like to me the rings are shot no?