Trance's Saturday night stump
 

Heh, I had a little scare last night after I decided to put on an overbored throttlebody and ported intake manifold I've had laying around here for a while. It was going on my 2000 Integra.
Yesterday was the nicest day out of the week (a whopping 40 degrees!!!). So I started my little install project. Get it all installed and try to start it up. The thing's idling like shyt, and smoking like a bastard! So I was like wtf?!
At this point it's dark out, getting colder by the minute (about 30 degrees now), and I have to trouble shoot my problem. Well I traced down the shitty idle to a leaking throttlebody gasket. Turns out I let my younger brother put the gasket on and bolt the T.B. down. I told him make sure the gasket is on right, it only lines up 1 way... Well he didn't. It was upside down.
While I had the T.B. off, I noticed inside the intake runners there was some aluminum dust from the guy who ported the intake! I even blew it out before I installed it to make sure it was clean. I pulled the plugs to check them out and find out why this thing was smoking, and I noticed the tops of the pistons were wet... This one still kinda stumps me. the moisture on the pistons smelled like fuel, not coolant.
I started thinking the aluminum dust may have fucked my rings up and it's burning oil. I couldn't tell what color the smoke was because it was dark out. Well I put the plugs back and bolted the T.B on the right way >:(, and tried to fire it up one last time to see if the problem still exists.
No more smoke, and the shitty idle was taken care of. Thank god I didn't blow my motor. I still have my little boost project to do as soon as the weather gets a little warmer. Heh, sorry for the longass post, but I just thought I'd share with you guy's last nights experience. Can you tell I'm a batchelor too? Working on my car on valentines day, what a sucker :-[.

Re:Trance's Saturday night stump
 

The alum dust prob interfered with your spark. Good trouble shooting.

Change your oil as soon as possible too. You dont want any of that dust sticking around

Re:Trance's Saturday night stump
 

Yeah your probably right. I'll change the oil today. Thanks. :)

Re:Trance's Saturday night stump
 

Yeah Steve I had a hard night last night working on my car too.It was cold as ----!It got down to like 65 degrees!BRRRRRR :shivers uper boady: !! :P


Im glad you didnt blow your motor ;D

Re:Trance's Saturday night stump
 

At least it was something simple and you didn't ---- anything up. :-\
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Re:Trance's Saturday night stump
 

Yeah I know it... I really don't feel like doing a re-build on an engine over something stupid. At least let it die peacefully with a turbo mounted on it ;D. Oil change is done, now it's on to installing the 450's :)