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Ganthrithor · 02-08-2021, 05:56 AM

Updated my original post: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...&postcount=420

The car's back! Yay! Drove it to the airfield, then home at the end of the day... maybe ~50 miles? So far, so good. Car's now parked since the registration is now over a year out of date and I'm probably going to have to visit the DMV in-person to figure out how to re-register it (didn't receive a bill for my 2021 registration at all since the 2020 reg process was never completed). I also need to figure out what I'm going to do from a maintenance perspective... obviously I'm on break-in again, so gentle driving and no high RPM for a while. I might drop the oil tomorrow just to see if any solids fall out-- RTV or metal from the new block / camshafts / cam carriers. New oil and then run that for maybe the next 500 miles? It's also tempting to drop the oil pain and just have a look at that oil suction screen again, but since IIRC that also seals with RTV I guess each time you sneak a peek you're risking the same goddamn loose sealant problem again. At least it's on the bottom of the engine this time, so any scrapings aren't going to fall up into the engine? :|

One thing that spooks me though is that after the original recall procedure, the oil starvation wasn't apparent until I revved the engine up-- it ran "fine" on the way home with normal surface street / highway driving (RPM under 5k). If there's any problem this time around, I feel like I'd rather know sooner than later, but I also don't want to rev the engine out on a set of brand-new moving parts.

02-08-2021, 05:56 AM	#437
Ganthrithor Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Drives: '13 BRZ, '06 997, Other Things(TM) Location: Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 1,078 Thanks: 1,715 Thanked 670 Times in 351 Posts Mentioned: 9 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Updated my original post: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...&postcount=420 The car's back! Yay! Drove it to the airfield, then home at the end of the day... maybe ~50 miles? So far, so good. Car's now parked since the registration is now over a year out of date and I'm probably going to have to visit the DMV in-person to figure out how to re-register it (didn't receive a bill for my 2021 registration at all since the 2020 reg process was never completed). I also need to figure out what I'm going to do from a maintenance perspective... obviously I'm on break-in again, so gentle driving and no high RPM for a while. I might drop the oil tomorrow just to see if any solids fall out-- RTV or metal from the new block / camshafts / cam carriers. New oil and then run that for maybe the next 500 miles? It's also tempting to drop the oil pain and just have a look at that oil suction screen again, but since IIRC that also seals with RTV I guess each time you sneak a peek you're risking the same goddamn loose sealant problem again. At least it's on the bottom of the engine this time, so any scrapings aren't going to fall up into the engine? :\| One thing that spooks me though is that after the original recall procedure, the oil starvation wasn't apparent until I revved the engine up-- it ran "fine" on the way home with normal surface street / highway driving (RPM under 5k). If there's any problem this time around, I feel like I'd rather know sooner than later, but I also don't want to rev the engine out on a set of brand-new moving parts.