Oil in intercooler - stuffed turbo?

[Skatieguy]

So I was driving home yesterday and randomly my car started kinda hesitating over about 3k rpm, like I\'m getting either very low or no boost (no boost gauge) and fuelling was staying the same perhaps? Anyway I checked the oil, it was near full about 200km ago, now it\'s below the low mark cold. I took the intercooler off and I see there is oil in there and right before the throttle body. (shitty ipod pics)

CEL does not come on, body/turbo/gearbox have 200,700km on them, about 31k on rebuilt engine. Standard vf30 on standard boost. 2000 V7 STi. Is there anything else it could be?

[Roo]

Not a great sign but necessarily a terminal sign, see plenty of turbo cars with oil in the intercooler/piping. This is not your problem.

I would be checking coils and plugs for a start then moving on to afm

[Skatieguy]

 Roo said:

Not a great sign but necessarily a terminal sign, see plenty of turbo cars with oil in the intercooler/piping. This is not your problem.

I would be checking coils and plugs for a start then moving on to afm

Ah yes, should\'ve also mentioned this, replaced afm about 200km ago and coils maybe 100km ago, spark plugs were done maybe 5k ago. It was running absolutely mint after changing out the coils (no more misfiring)

[Roo]

Was it a new afm?

[Skatieguy]

Secondhand with a 3 month warranty, would you recommend changing the old afm back into it again? It wasn\'t the problem anyway.

[Roo]

Give it a go mate

[Skatieguy]

So I chucked it all back together and swapped out the afm, went for a quick drive and I noticed as i pulled in back home that I DO have a flashing CEL, if only I could read it..

[Roo]

No change?

Do these still have the plugs under the dash or too new?

[Skatieguy]

 Roo said:

No change?

Do these still have the plugs under the dash or too new?

No change, from what I remember there is a plug under the steering wheel kinda, possibly for diagnostic tools.

[Rosssub]

Should have the Green and Black Diagnostic Plugs, for checking Codes and resetting ECU:

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ccgrant/celcheck.htm

http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic,67.0.html

[Skatieguy]

I can see some green male/female adapters but no black ones ??? Maybe I\'m just blind.

[RAYDEO]

sorry may have missed it, what kind of car are you talking about here? if there are green ones there should be black ones.

[Skatieguy]

 RAYDEO said:

sorry may have missed it, what kind of car are you talking about here? if there are green ones there should be black ones.

I edited it up the top but this is a V7 STi, late 2000.

[Rosssub]

 Skatieguy said:

I can see some green male/female adapters but no black ones ??? Maybe I\'m just blind.

The Plugs are identical, Black\'s and Green\'s normally together. But the Black\'s may have been mistaken and re-routed not far away. They\'ll be there....

[Marky]

Are you sure v7 has both sets

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Mine does, but wont show CEL correctly unless plugged into scanner

[Marky]

Thats what I was getting at

[Skatieguy]

Ok, so either way I see I\'ll need an obd-ii scanner, any reccomendations for these? Just the cheapest rubbish will work near the same as an expensive one?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-700655371.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-701302377.htm

These ones seem the cheapest on Trademe, otherwise I guess I could try ripco or sca.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

where are you located? there are a few members with scanners

[Skatieguy]

Rotorua/ Waikite Valley.

[Rosssub]

 Skatieguy said:

Ok, so either way I see I\'ll need an obd-ii scanner, any reccomendations for these? Just the cheapest rubbish will work near the same as an expensive one?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-700655371.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-701302377.htm

These ones seem the cheapest on Trademe, otherwise I guess I could try ripco or sca.

2000 V7 STI would be OBD I wouldn\'t it?

[Timmah]

 Rosssub']

[quote name='Skatieguy said:

Ok, so either way I see I\'ll need an obd-ii scanner, any reccomendations for these? Just the cheapest rubbish will work near the same as an expensive one?

url]http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-700655371.htm[/url]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-701302377.htm

These ones seem the cheapest on Trademe, otherwise I guess I could try ripco or sca.

2000 V7 STI would be OBD I wouldn\'t it?

Should be OBD2.

[Skatieguy]

 Rosssub']

[quote name='Skatieguy said:

Ok, so either way I see I\'ll need an obd-ii scanner, any reccomendations for these? Just the cheapest rubbish will work near the same as an expensive one?

url]http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-700655371.htm[/url]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/tools-repair-kits/meters-testers/auction-701302377.htm

These ones seem the cheapest on Trademe, otherwise I guess I could try ripco or sca.

2000 V7 STI would be OBD I wouldn\'t it?

I just finished some googling and found this:

 

Does ej207 swap w/ version 7 sti ecu = no more obdii? what can I do about emissions? what about datalogging w/ ecuexplorer? what about ecuflash?

 

you will not pass OBDII emissions testing BUT OBDII is operational. It just does not include all the USDM stuff for emissions testing.

ECUFlash, Enginuity, etc ALL work on the JDM/EDM ecus as well as the USDM.

But chances are you are correct, either way I need a code reader

[Pappu1]

Need a scanner to get codes in a v7

Could have helped if in Auckland as have scanner thi g

Anywy so maybe re measure oil (flat surface and on cold engine) and see if it really is that low cos I wud be filling up and not driving on low oil

Next maybe the cel was afm related so put in the new afm and do the same loop u did and if no cel then wud have been the afm one wud assume

Also clean the electrical connectors for the engine as a start

See how u go on oil usage

Oh and if u can clean Intercooler off the oil as that\'s a good idea

[Roo]

V4 onwards is obd2