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Oil everywhere and poor performance after Dejon intake

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BigDan

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Dec 1, 2007
chi, Illinois
Hey I bought a Dejon intake tube, 2g mas, plug and play adapter, Dejon UICP and elbow second hand.

My car is a 92 TSI AWD stock w/ 114K and most matianance complete.

The seller also threw in a canister for the 2 vaccum lines/PCV lines that use to go into the stock intake tube. Well I didnt have small enough hose clamps to clamp the PCV hose to the canister, I figured it could wait until I got back from my test run aroun the neighborhood.

1st gear huge improvment in power from 5-7K
2nd gear was good until 5500rpm and then it lost alot of power and would stop pulling. I heard the turbo fluttering.

Got back home and there was oil splattered under the hood. I saw that the dipstick poped off and figured that was the problem. I zip tied the dipstick so it wouldnt pop off again. I checked the 2 vacuum lines/ PCV and they were dry so I took it back out.

Same problem but it got worse the longer I drove and after 3 minutes the engine was running so bad I had to drive 5mph home.

Poped the hood and there was oil everywhere. It was comming from that little hole on the front of the valve cover above the dipstick and the PCV hose. I cleaned the oil up, installed the pcv canister and it still ran bad, it couldnt even idle.

I figured the plugs were soaked in oil so I cleaned thoes up and it still runs like crap.

Both times I returned the engine was super hot to the touch but the gauge never went above normal.

I dont think its an internal engine problem since it was running great before the new intake and could tell there was a problem right away.

I'm gonna do a compression check right now.

Can you guys help me out?

This is a very common mod and im guessing this has happened before. I realize that I need a logger and gauges and figured I might have a small tuning problem but nothing like this.

Thanks for the help

Dan
 
Sounds like you're ready then


This is a perfect example of "Shit Happens"


Lets first find out what happened (if the pistons and rings are fried, the valves messed up) then we'll pull what needs to come out.

and you're right...

we're here for ya!
 
LOL, I lost a wheel one time when I put the lug nuts on backwards. Scariest car ride ever!! : O

I'd not screw around with any tests. No matter what's wrong with it, you're going to be pulling the head, and you'll see a busted HG a lot easier than anything you're going to see from under the engine. I don't think it's going to be the HG though :(
 
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