DC2 INTEGRA Eating Oil

[mattdove_uk]

Guys,

Not tech minded. 96 DCT Teg 94000 miles eating oil when ragged. 0.5 L per 300 miles when given propper right foot. Fine when driven normally. Also second cam will not kick in when cold or when going sideways unless absoloutely full of oil, pain in arse coming off a roundabout. Likely to be oil pump or something worse?

Please help. Need your guidance.

Thanks in advance.

Matt

[vz-r_dave]

mattdove_uk said:

Guys,

Not tech minded. 96 DCT Teg 94000 miles eating oil when ragged. 0.5 L per 300 miles when given propper right foot. Fine when driven normally. Also second cam will not kick in when cold or when going sideways unless absoloutely full of oil, pain in arse coming off a roundabout. Likely to be oil pump or something worse?

Please help. Need your guidance.

Thanks in advance.

Matt

You really need to go to www.itr-dc2.com and have a very good read before you do any serious damage to your engine.

1. VTEC not engaging when cold. No oil pressure when cold, vtec Solenoid will not engage unless there is enough pressure. Stop being a chav and let your engine warm up before you thrash it.

2. Going sideways and vtec not engaging, your probably running low on oil. have you looked at your dipsstick?? Do you know what Full is?

3. Some guys burn 1 ltr per 1K miles.

Sounds like you have one unhealthy teg

Edited by vz-r_dave on Wednesday 25th February 05:16

[Revs_Addiction]

mattdove_uk said:

Also second cam will not kick in when cold

Honda have done this to prevent idiots from killing their engines by thrashing them before the oil is up to temperature

mattdove_uk said:

Need your guidance.

Start showing your car some mechanical sympathy, or you're going to get a BIG bill very soon...

[ALawson]

Revs_Addiction said:

mattdove_uk said:

Also second cam will not kick in when cold

Honda have done this to prevent idiots from killing their engines by thrashing them before the oil is up to temperature

mattdove_uk said:

Need your guidance.

Start showing your car some mechanical sympathy, or you're going to get a BIG bill very soon...

Circa 4k!

[jatinder]

What oil are you using?

[pbirkett]

mattdove_uk, that sounds pretty normal to me mate (although not the part about it not engaging VTEC when cornering). These cars do like a drink of oil when revved, but lets face it, any car that gets to 9000 RPM is bound to eat oil when its constantly revved. I know of guys who actually take oil with them on track days to top up if neccesary.

Mine is the same, if I REALLY cane it, it drinks it very quickly. If I drive it normally, it hardly uses any. Hardly a sign of an unhealthy car - mine still pulls like a train after 6000 RPM despite having over 100K miles on the clock.

I agree with the others though. Its an old car, I'd treat it with a little more respect if I was you or it will end up costing you. I drive mine hard, but theres no need to abuse it.

Edited by pbirkett on Saturday 28th February 11:11

[JWH]

Firstly I echo everything said above, stop ragging it from cold and open the bonnet, pull out the dipstick and if it's not showing full top it up, about 1 litre from low mark to high mark.
Secondly - when I first got mine it drank like a fish too, an oil change with the correct oil grade (semi-synth 10/40W) made this much better. It now uses nothing if I keep under 5000rpm and progressively more the harder gets driven, but still never more than 1 litre/3000 miles under normal driving.