One day when I decided to exit the freeway, my car smoked heavily. It idled rough, lost power drastically, and attempted to stall many times coming to a stop.

I pulled into a near by gas station and popped the hood. It turns out that TONS of smoke was coming out of my breather hole in idle. I looked around the bay and there was oil EVERYWHERE. It turns out that one of the valve cover bolts broke somehow and spit out nearly ALL the oil in the motor. I will admit the RPMs were high on the freeway so the engine was working fairly hard. Not only that, I had also seafoamed the motor 2 weeks prior and it was my first time with it on the freeway since.

I checked the oil level and I did not see any. I opened up the oil cap and saw a bit of milky residue, but not that much. Still, the first thing that came into mind was a cracked piston/ringlands due to lack of oil.

After filling it up with 3.5 quarts of oil, I finally saw oil on the dipstick. That pretty much confirmed that the motor had NO oil.

I got a free B16A2 block from a friend of mine to replace. After pulling off my the head I had a good comparison of the two blocks.

Here is what I do not understand

I noticed on the B16A block, there are two silicone lines that lead to something that looks like an adapter to an oil filter. However, the B16A2 block does not have it. One of the lines goes to the pipe/tube that the thermostat is connected to. The other, I believe goes to the blcok.

When I swap the parts over to the B16A2 block, what do I do w/ the existing line that comes out of the coolant pipe/tube? Do I plug it up? Where does it go?

Cliff notes:

-Swapping B16A block and using a B16A2 block.

-On B16A block, there are two lines that go to a unit that the oil filter is connected to, whereto the B16A2 block does not have that piece.

-What do I do when I swap them over?

BTW, the car is a B16A turbo.. don't know if that helps.
Thanks in advance!

 

those are coolant lines going to the oil cooler.
if you want to swap it over yuou will have to swap the coolant pipe and tap the block .
there is a big nut in the cooler in order to take it out
If not leave it without the oil cooler

 

Thanks...But if I leave it out w/o the oil cooler, do I just close up the opening hole on the coolant pipe?

 

so your swapping the coolant pipe from the old to the new and want to not use the oil cooler? if so yeah plug it up

 

Yeah, that is correct... and thanks!