corvettecarl said:
could be all your oil is blowing out your tailpipe ? ? ?
ive heard alot of the callaway's have bad ring's.
they burn alot of oil. how often does your low oil light come on ?
do you ever get a big plume of black smoke when you step on it hard?
Well it turns out that it was in fact low on oil, I just recently changed, but the friggin shop put the wrong type in. So now I'll have to do it myself again. I called Callaway and talked to their Chief Engineer "Wayne".
He tell's me that during WOT the computer is set to rich to avoid leaning it out.
I did once get a big black cloud after getting on it. But black smoke is and indication of rich mixture not oil consumption, that would be a light gray smoke.
Have not noticed that I'm burning oil since the change, but I am getting a slight lifter noise now. This is because they used 5/30 instead of the 15/50
that's required. I'll be changing it this weekend to see the difference. didn't have that sound before the oil was changed so I'm assuming that it's because of the thinner oil. I did a compression check and all seemed fine on the cylinders .I don't think theres a problem with the rings and no indication of blow by.
I talked to several other people who also have Callaway's and they too are getting the same smoke sometimes at WOT, but none have encountered any problems with the rings so far.
Hopefully I'll be able to get this thing a little cooler, going to bypass the throttle body cooler and relocate the sensor.