Oil Leak- I'M SICK OF IT! Options

[Rymaster]

This car has been leaking oil for years now, about a quart of oil per oil change.

I'm sick of it! I've had it! I hate coming off of the freeway and people looking at me like my car is some kind of steam driven train from all the smoke blowing out from under the hood!
I for one am NOT a fan of the smell of burning oil!!! And I've smelt my last smelt of it!

So after completing my clutch job I'm all in the mood to fix this too.
I'm attaching some pictures if anyone is willing to possible suggest where they think the issue may be located.
I know from the pictures it looks like it could be the valve cover gasket, but I've already did this one and the one I replaced was actually perfectly fine!

I know the oil gaskets by the timing belt cover are popular but the very left side of my engine it rather clean next to the timing belt cover. It's in the back of my engine that smoke constantly blows up from (I drew an arrow in the one picture to show you). Most of the oil seems to be resting on the left side of the bottom of the air manifold. From there on down, things are really messy! But that's the highest point with signs of oil.

Any ideas???



where the smoke comes from







THE MESS!!!










back of air manifold is rather clean!







over head pictures of by throttle









Clean next to timing belt cover




This post has been edited by Rymaster: Jul 7, 2011 - 11:07 PM

[RabidTRD]

I'm leaking from a similar spot in the rear.

First question is:
How did you re-tighten the valve cover?

Second question:
Is there oil under your distributor like it looks in the photo?

Also, that routing of the intake piping is killing the point of the CIA. The idea is to take air that is cool from the furthest part, away from the engine and exhaust and deliver it to the engine. You're heating your pipe by running it so close to the exhaust, therefore bringing in hotter air than you would if you had the stock air box. If you're going to run a full CIA like that, do some mods and run it in the stock location down into the front fender well. You'll have to mod the bottom of the fuse box, but your engine will benefit from it so much. You may be super heating your head running it there and may have warped the head enough for it to leak out of the rear part of the head gasket. I've seen it happen before on Civic's and Corolla's.

This post has been edited by RabidTRD: Jul 3, 2011 - 9:04 PM