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nyteshade151

Ok i was driving the car after putting on a new brake caliper and i went into boost. everything was fine but then the car started dieing and losing power. My friend who was following said i was blowing out alot of smoke from under the car. I pulled over and lifted the hood and there was oil everywhere and looked to be coming from my dipstick. I tried started starting it back up and tried to move and it died again. I checked on here already and saw people saying check the pcv valve on the valve cover. but would that make the car die while driving (or trying to drive)? I just want to get ALL the advise i could before going out and testing 1 at a time. thanks in advance.
 
A bad PCV wouldnt make it die suddenly all it does is ventilates the excess gas created by the engine, as for the dipstick a motor with alot of blow by will blow out a good dipstick,a dried dipstick will get blown out by a good motor, and a 1/2 good dipstick will get blown out by a 1/2 good motor. Mine blows out because it old a dried up. Did you run it out of oil?
Do a compression test.
 
as for the dipstick a motor with alot of blow by will blow out a good dipstick,a dried dipstick will get blown out by a good motor, and a 1/2 good dipstick will get blown out by a 1/2 good motor.


I already know this part of what you said. I'll check my compression a lil later. I didn't run out of oil but it's low from all that i blew out. Anything else would make the car die when starting from a stop. (ALSO) it does idle really low.
 
Well mine used to die when ever I took it out of gear because my biss screw was missing but it would always start back up.
 
thanks for the info, keep any ideas coming.

UPDATE
I didn't check the compression yet but I started the car today and it idles normal but the exhaust is alot louder (no holes in exhaust checked) It sorta sounds like i have an upgraded muffler or something or actually more like it N/A with no muffler. I'm going to check the turbo tomorrow and make sure it's still spinning. I was missing roughly two quarts of oil tho. Also when i had it idling smoke was coming from the dipstick tube and also the vent hole on the side of the valve cover.
 
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