That's not necessarily true if the rings are fine, but you're losing oil through the valve seals. It's definitely not the oil pump. I'm still wondering the same, whether it was blue smoke (oil) or white smoke (coolant)?f4fntm said:On the other hand, if it's burning it, the motor needs to be completely rebuilt.
White smoke is coolant...blue smoke is oil, could be a combination of buring, leaking. A clogged pump will not lead 'loosing' oil...it's leaving the engine either through the cylinders or leak.
if the pump was pluged you'd have NO oil pressure at all or very very litte at all times...the fact you're going through over 3 quarts of oil is a GOOD indication that the oil is being burned if you have no leaks. The white smoke (to me) inidcated coolant is getting into the cylinders...my guess would be bad seal from the cobra intake install....that and the oil use (to the degree you're using) I have no good news for the motor at all.
what is the BAFFLE?
are you taking about the tubes that are under the intake in the rear?
Your oil concumption is either blowing by the piston rings or the valves. I would do a compression test for starters. You can pick up a compression guage from any auto parts store or you can even get them at Walmart and Meijers also. They are like 25-35.00. Drive the car and get it good and warm. Then pull all your spark plugs out and disconnect your wireharness to the coil( unplug the coil). Screw the hose that comes with the guage into one of your sparkplug holes and have someone crank the car with the throttle wide open. The guage will move and eventually stop. Write that # down with that particular cylinder you just tested. unscrew the hose and put a squirt or two of oil in to the spark plug hole and test it again write that # down and do the same for every cylinder. I f the compression increases after you add the oil to the cylinder the piston rings are more than likely trashed. If it doesnt increase significantly then its probably leaking past the valves which would indicate bent valve or bad valve seats. If you have two adjacent cylinders that have equally low compression (for EX. Cylinder 1&5 or 2&6 ETC) thats a pretty good bet you have a blown head gasket. Your #'s should be all within 10% of one another. Does your oil look like chocolate milk?
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