Stiggy Pop
In the cool kids club
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2011
- Location
- Granville, MA
I say just cut to the chase and mount the car on your garage wall as a permanent art installation
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The stuff you added to the trunk only needs to cover 30% of the surface area. Ideally you would put a layer of open cell acoustic foam on top of that, followed by carpeting.
Awesome to hear the oil consumption issue is solved. To where did you plumb the accumulator sump vent?
Nice to see oil flow in the clear hoses. The froth you see in the sump drainage is pretty mild compared to what actually comes out of the turbo. Whenever I spend time on the VSR at work I get a healthy reminder of just how foamy the oil is after exiting the ball bearing. A good percentage of oil in the turbo actually surrounds the outer ring of the bearing to act as a squeeze-film damper, but the portion that does pass through the bearing is turned into frothed milk for your latte, essentially. This puffs up the oil volume accordingly which is one thing that was working against you (among several others!).
Any idea of depression (or absolute pressure) resultant from the scavenge pump? Might be interesting to measure that. On a certain red/white/blue GT racing car a few years back I dealt with massive oil coking in the center housing, caused by excessive scavenge depression literally sucking mass amounts of hot exhaust gas past the turbine end seal and into the oil cavity and bearing area. Turning down the wick on the scavenge stage solved the problem after much testing. Might be good to check that at some point - simple analog pressure gage plumbed into your accumulator sump would tell the story. Of course if it's now vented to atmosphere then it's no worries, mate.
Russian ebay is great for cheap car parts! For our Lemons E36 we scored 4 plastic fender flares for like $75 SHIPPED from Russian ebay. They arrived in a burlap sack.