Odd one for you tech-guys out there. Honda race-car problems.
I've got a weird one for you all. I have a 89 Civic that has a D16A6 swapped into it and bolted to the stock 89 4-speed. When I run the car on the track, it starts to smoke out of the engine bay/wheel well, and there is oil all over the passenger side of the engine.
We had changed the oil and oil fiter previous to this happening. After about 7 laps we took it off the track and noticed all of the leaking.
We originally thought it was trans fluid so we replaced the seal and had the CV joint looked at and had a burr removed from the section that comes in contact with the oil seal. We also refilled the transmission with MTL manual trans fluid.
We took it back to the track and within 2 laps it was doing it again. Fluid was not red like the trans oil that we just put in. Which lead us to think that it was motor oil.
The problem is that it is only the passenger side that was affected. Everything right of the flywheel is completely dry.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Posted Jun 24, 2012, 3:16 AM UTC