Oil leak solved - Raceseng billet aluminum cam plate

[SubaSteve]

It was a bitch to pull off so you know the seal was good. The ultra grey is a good quarter of an inch thick.

[FT-86 SpeedFactory]

Just put this on our car. Perfect solution.

[Mr.]

@Raceseng You think Toyota or Subaru will find a solution like such?

[Raceseng]

Originally Posted by Mr.

@Raceseng You think Toyota or Subaru will find a solution like such?

Not sure... I'm not sure if they are all too concerned with the issue.

[whitefrs]

Originally Posted by Raceseng

Not sure... I'm not sure if they are all too concerned with the issue.

Toyota/Subaru aint concern about shit

[mkiisupra]

Want one, just noticed a bit of dirty seepage at the plate.

It would seem that via this thread and the other thread(s) about this issue that the problem isn't about absolute sealing (aka 'it was hard as heck to pull off') but about the tiny break in the seal near the bottom (along the seam for the head pieces) that happens due to expansion differences?!?

Man, I hate RTV sealed stuff without gaskets and without single-face mating surfaces...

Eric G

[Bad Habits]

Originally Posted by Raceseng

Not sure... I'm not sure if they are all too concerned with the issue.

^this. Toyobaru are concerned with jackshit and jack left the building. Don't see their train of thought changing in the future, they sold the car but that is all they wanted to do was get units sold. Asking them to take care of factory defects are being met with nothing but contempt and apathy. Giving them until the end of this week to decide if they want to learn to give a shit or my car is getting traded.

[Lonewolf]

Toyota will care once this leaking oil causes a fire and they get sued...

[Young_makaveli]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Like a number of other manual transmission owners on this forum, I quickly realized that I had a situation with oil leaking from my passenger side rear cam plate cover. The repeatable symptom was that when pushing the car hard above 4k rpm, drops of oil would be forced out from the faulty factory seal of the rear cam plate and land directly on the hot overpipe. This resulted in a foul odor and is definitely not something that should be happening to a brand new 2013 model year car.

While this doesn't affect all manual transmission twins, it's prominent and annoying enough to spark a number of owners to visit the dealership for a warranty fix. I followed the experiences of others who took their cars in in this thread. What I observed was that there seemed to be a hit or miss result in regards to both the dealer applied fix and individual fixes that owners were performing and documenting. I followed the thread for weeks waiting for a TSB and debating attempting my own fix.

I saw a post from @Raceseng asking if there would potentially be any interest in an aftermarket solution to this problem. This is exactly what I had been waiting for, so I excitedly replied that yes I would be very interested indeed! I was even more excited when I got a PM a few weeks later asking if I would like to be a prototype tester for the part! A few days later, I got this in the mail:



From start to end my experience with Raceseng has been great. These are consummate professionals, folks! I'm happy to have been able to fine tune some of the installation instructions and provide real world feedback on their cam plate's functionality.

The Install:

Comparison of the stock plate on the left and the Raceseng on the right.


Looking closer, you can see the one of the faults of the factory silicone gasket material, the small seam in the gasket caused by the two pieces of the aluminum engine block meeting.



Here is the view immediately after taking the stock plate cover off. Notice the seam created where the two sections meet.



Install finished!


Overall a really simple install, one of the keys was making sure the engine was cold so that oil wasn't flowing down from the engine back down to the oil pan. Another was making sure the area was perfectly clean by using brake and parts cleaner to ensure there was no oily residue left on the surface of the metal.

Here's a spread of the installation materials, minus the brake and parts cleaner:



Results:

I'm happy to report that after nearly a thousand miles of spirited driving, there is not a single drop of oil present. I would continuously check after every hard drive but now I've stopped doing that since I'm so confident in the part. Hats off to Raceseng for the great design and effort put into this part, highly recommended.

I had to show some respect, so now I am rocking their sticker on my rear window along with my Proud of BOXER sticker.



B-b-b-bonus! Here is what the final version of their plate will look like:

What year is your car manufactured?

I have a 13"/05 model

I heard that all 2013 manufactured frs don't have this issue

Any truth to this?

[thehapaone]

Originally Posted by Young_makaveli

What year is your car manufactured?

I have a 13"/05 model

I heard that all 2013 manufactured frs don't have this issue

Any truth to this?

I have an april 2013 build date and have this problem

[Young_makaveli]

Originally Posted by thehapaone

I have an april 2013 build date and have this problem

Oh damn you were not lucky

I dont have this issue

[whitefrs]

Originally Posted by Young_makaveli

Oh damn you were not lucky

I dont have this issue

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can you take a pic from the top

[Young_makaveli]

Originally Posted by whitefrs

can you take a pic from the top

[whitefrs]

Lol
I didnt explain myself lmao

I wanna see the exact location of this plate



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