Smoking engine
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Thanks for the posts and emails - much appreciated.
The paramedics have been (AA), awaiting 'ambulance' tomorrow to take baby to hospital to be looked after by Dr Mike.
Can do a very good inmpression of the Red Arrows - generate lots of smoke at will
Having spoken to Dr Mike, hopefully it is a known issue with the V8 Vantage - a failure of a plastic component in the oil breathers, allowing oil into the inlet manifold. IIRC Steve (PiloteAM) had the same problem. I and the AA have checked water level, no sign of oil there, so hopefully a simple replacement of a cheap part. Needs manifolds etc to be steam cleaned so will be a few hours labour.
Will get BR to service it whilst there as its due - 7 year service. At least I can answer the question of if the car has only done 37k for the 70,000 / 7 year service do you replace the spark plugs? - if you've oiled them up then yes!
The paramedics have been (AA), awaiting 'ambulance' tomorrow to take baby to hospital to be looked after by Dr Mike.
Can do a very good inmpression of the Red Arrows - generate lots of smoke at will
Having spoken to Dr Mike, hopefully it is a known issue with the V8 Vantage - a failure of a plastic component in the oil breathers, allowing oil into the inlet manifold. IIRC Steve (PiloteAM) had the same problem. I and the AA have checked water level, no sign of oil there, so hopefully a simple replacement of a cheap part. Needs manifolds etc to be steam cleaned so will be a few hours labour.
Will get BR to service it whilst there as its due - 7 year service. At least I can answer the question of if the car has only done 37k for the 70,000 / 7 year service do you replace the spark plugs? - if you've oiled them up then yes!
Edited by Neil1300R on Monday 28th October 17:22
Wow, fingers crossed Neil. When I read about you blowing your engine up on the other thread it did remind me of the one about the bomber who burnt his lips on the exhaust trying to blow a car up 
. Then I remembered that photo Jockman posted and I realised it's not your lips you need to worry about. 
. Then I remembered that photo Jockman posted and I realised it's not your lips you need to worry about. Retman said:
Then I remembered that photo Jockman posted and I realised it's not your lips you need to worry about.
Lets not post that again!
A) It isn't me, no really it isn't - you can tell as my Range Rover is a P38, not a Classic
B) It will get this thread locked
Edited by Neil1300R on Monday 28th October 18:07
robgt said:
Neil I'm sure that your initial fears will be unfounded. Dr. Mike will sort it out for you. You are lucky though, what an opportunity to release some ponies from your unhurt engine.
Why do the manifolds? An extra 40 horses, that's why!
Thanks Rob.Why do the manifolds? An extra 40 horses, that's why!
No upgrades will be considered, money needed for business investment at the moment.
8Tech said:
New manifolds?
Whats wrong with the original ones? I wasn't aware there were different inlet manifolds available.
Hopefully the oil will not have damaged the cats. May still smoke a bit until all the oil is burnt out of the exhausts though!
Whats wrong with the original ones? I wasn't aware there were different inlet manifolds available.
Hopefully the oil will not have damaged the cats. May still smoke a bit until all the oil is burnt out of the exhausts though!
PCV's is my guess, pesky little buggers cause problems on all sorts of cars
Cheap fix though
Neil1300R said:
What's one of them in English?
The PCV valve could be roughly considered as an inline filter/diverter that controls the pressure inside the crankcase from blowing the oil straight into the inlet manifold, which is what it appears yours may be doing. There was a thread here about it recently referring to oil getting into the air filters and using an oil catch tank I believe.
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