My ITR is using a lot of oil during track use , nearly 1 liter per hour. Any one having the same problem ?
How abouth a catchtank would this help , is there a system to add oild during engine operation ?

Let me know what you know !

TNX

Douglas

 

What kind of oil are you using?
I ask because I had the same problem running any syntetic oil brand (castrol, motul mobil).
I partially solved consumption (50% less) switching to semisyntetic oil (Shell helix 5w40). Maybe you could try it.

Catch can is nice to keep clean intake manifold, but will not solve oil consumption.

Btw, on high rpm does your exaust smoke at wot or closed throttle?

Hi, i'm euro ITR too (Italy).

 

under high rpm your pcv system will allow the ingestion of oil. go with a breather kit like endyn's that maintain's honda's closed PCV system and also drains back into the block. Cheap mod too, only like 175 and will actually give you a minor hp increase as well reducing the crankcase pressure and making the intake charge have less oil vapor, makes it light the fuel more efficiently. I have someone in my group that has one and swears by it. other guys just have done things as simple as running hoses into mountain dew cans, like blake's pikes peak C5hatch... made me laugh it was funny. it WORKS though. he was experiencing puffs of white smoke at high rpm on a new-ish motor, this helped clear it up. you will burn less oil, however if it doesnt help... you may need valveseals, guides and/or piston rings eventually. Its all good thats not all that hard to do once you've been there and I dont doubt that you have

 

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[Modified by MachAF, 6:53 PM 3/30/2003]

 

Hi,

The car only has 50.000km (32.000 miles) , I am using the full synthetic oil. I don't think that its safe to run it on semi synt.oils , because I am reving it during 4 hours between 6.000 and 9.500 revs . The car doesn't seem to smoke mutch at any time , no leaks nothing .

Thanks for helping me out

 

How often do you race?
I'd say it's about time for a rebuild.