Went to the Castle combe the action day today and the car was performing shit hot!, however towards the end of the day on my last session, i lost partial power at the end of the straight, doing 110+ at the time.
Then all of a sudden tons of smoke in the cockpit and loads behind me, was like ohh shit!
Opened the windows to breath and realised it wasnt coming from the exhaust but the engine bay! Managed to limp back to the pits, opened the bonnet and to my amazement, the entire engine bay was covered in oil.
No pipes had come off it had all sprayed through the oil breather ontop of the rocker cover.
It would start but was only running on 3 cylinders, tested it with a compression tester and there was no compression at all in cylinder no.1. However with the plug out you could feel it compressing the air out of the cylinder, spark plug back in and it was coming out the breathers, pumping all the oil out.
What possible causes would do this, i have no abnormal noises from the engine, apart from no compression in cylinder 1, all my coolant is still there, no oil in the coolant tank and it didnt over heat either.
I have been told it could be a dropped valve (but this would surely make a horrible noise), possibly head gasket, even though i just changed this last week!
Any other suggestions, or has this happened to anyone else?
Then all of a sudden tons of smoke in the cockpit and loads behind me, was like ohh shit!
Opened the windows to breath and realised it wasnt coming from the exhaust but the engine bay! Managed to limp back to the pits, opened the bonnet and to my amazement, the entire engine bay was covered in oil.
No pipes had come off it had all sprayed through the oil breather ontop of the rocker cover.
It would start but was only running on 3 cylinders, tested it with a compression tester and there was no compression at all in cylinder no.1. However with the plug out you could feel it compressing the air out of the cylinder, spark plug back in and it was coming out the breathers, pumping all the oil out.
What possible causes would do this, i have no abnormal noises from the engine, apart from no compression in cylinder 1, all my coolant is still there, no oil in the coolant tank and it didnt over heat either.
I have been told it could be a dropped valve (but this would surely make a horrible noise), possibly head gasket, even though i just changed this last week!
Any other suggestions, or has this happened to anyone else?
and yes was happy with the mani and decat, fitted it the other day!
