oil is just disappearing

[theboostking]

I have a 96 tsi awd with a 1g engine swap just done 5k ago. First time I change my oil with new engine it was low, but I figured that's normal with a new engine (soaks it up). This oil change (1,800 miles) there was only about 2 qts of oil in the engine, and I even added 2 qts within the 1800 miles. There is no leak, so where is it going, and why?

 

[98spydert]

Are you smoking? The engine, not you.

 

[Defiant]

I have a 96 tsi awd with a 1g engine swap just done 5k ago. First time I change my oil with new engine it was low, but I figured that's normal with a new engine (soaks it up).

Tell us more. What, pray, in an engine possibly "soaks up" oil? Spongiform iron, perhaps?

If you aren't leaving [rather large] puddles, it's being burned someplace. Suspects are rings, valve guides, valve seals, and turbo seal. Which ones did you skip over replacing?

 

[theboostking]

I heard that with a new engine there will be some soaking of oil into the new internals, plus I had a shop (A well-known DSM shop, which is blowing me off) build the engine for me. I figured they done engine-rebuilds for a while and they SHOULD know what they are doing

 

[dogpoop]

"...soaking of oil into the new internals..."

Where do people get this stuff?