gsr oil problemss
 

I have an SIR, and my piston rings went at 140K, and I drive like a grandma. Not sure about the previous owner.

I burn around 2L of oil between oil changes.

My Old GSR used to do the exact same thing, and that was after a fresh rebuild but my rings didnt break in properly and I would literally shoot oil on to the cars behind me at 8k+rpm ..

If there are no leaks and you blew through a couple litres of oil in two weeks then I would say your rings are toast or your valve seals.

**** really.. well my one budy told me to run a thicker oil so im running 10w40 and see how that works out for a bit... and i know i have to rip apart the motor to do the rings and seals... but is it going to be an expensive job?

Thicker oil can help, I had to swap from Mobil1 synthetic as it was getting too expensive to dump out the tail pipe haha..

As for expensive, not really.. if you do it yourself, its the downtime that is killer. If I were you I would buy a Jspec B18C1 and swap that in while you rebuild your current engine. Or atleast thats what I did with my current K20 setup.. I blew a bearing in the bottom end and got rod knock so I tore that engine down to pieces and bought another K20 engine (with warranty lol) to drop in while I work on rebuilding my blown K20 to whatever specs I see fit. I picked up the K20a2 legit from a wreckers with 3 month warranty for $1700 so getting a B18C1 should not be that expensive.

wow thats a good deal.. and ya i was running mobil 2 but same thing its to expensive to see it just go out my tail pipe lol.. and i dont really have the cash to swap a new motor lol.. i was looking and thinking of getting ctr pistons.. p30? i heard good reviews or b16 pistons.. what would u recomend and would i have to change anything else in my motor to do this? other than probably a tune

Also add some Lucas, it helped a bit for me.

Welcome to the world of the GSR.. Very common for the B18C.

Running Rich, burning oil and low mileage. One of the things I read about a lot on GSRs is that clogged or malfunctioning PCV Values can cause a lot of un-necessary burning... May want to investigate that.

Also, for summer time - 20W50 is your friend. That plus if you're burning significant amounts between oil changes, you may want to swap to wal-mart brand oil.. Oil is oil, when it only lasts for like 1500KMs...

haha ya its doing a bit better now since i switched to 10w40.. im going to do the o2 sensor and sparkplugs too.. but i think im just going to upgrade to ctr pistons

Again, I would seriously investigate the PCV value.. Lots of talk about that being a significant contributor to oil burn.

ok will do.. so could it be that it has to be cleaned?? or need a new one

honestly, if you go through the trouble of taking it out, you should replace it..

It's a tiny little plastic 1 way valve.. don't think it costs very much. When you do take it out, test it to see if it was working.. If it wasn't, then it will tell you that it was a contributor to the oil burning you had.. If it's mega dirty, then again it's a contributor.

It's a 1 way valve, so air should only be able to flow 1 direction..

Do you have a haynes manual, to see how to get it out?

so i looked at my pcv valve and i didnt even have one.. just put one on today.. well see the difference i guess