hi guyss,
i took off of my air intake piping and my intercooler tonite to poilish it
and it was filled with oil..
the lower piping of intercooler has lots of oil and same with throttle body but not as much as intercooler.. i think it is normal for fds to have oil in these areas..
but i need help with cleaning my intercooler and other pipings

thanx
anees

 

I dont think it'll hurt your engine...

 

yea but how i am suppose to clean the oil
use water, parts cleaner or sumthing else
can i wash the intercooler?

 

maybe a brake cleaner?
something that can dissolve the oil

 

so if water goes inside the intercooler... and i dry it later
it wouldnt harm it rite?

 

Why do you want to clean the intercooler? No it wouldn't harm it.

thewird

 

I cleaned mine but it is futile as it comes back. I just used dish soap and lots of warm water. Rinse and repeat.

 

Use brake cleaner

 

thanx guys
i will use brake cleaner to get rid of the sticky oil and som dirt
and after i will rinse it with hot water and soap

 

coz the oil is going back into the TB
and its making a mess in there

 

brake cleaner or a parts cleaning material will get rid of the oil.

 

dish soap and hot water.

 

thanx guys

 

You do know after like 100km's its going to be dirty again

 

whats the solution than?

 

nothing, its normal for there to be oil

 

some pics
1st two pics are before i started cleaning
3rd pic is wid some brake fluid cleaning

i also tried to straigthen up the metal cores...
will have sum more pics wen it is polished soon

 

Gettting a catch can and routing all the breathing that goes to the intake may help getting rid of the oil. But then you'd have to empty the catch can.

thewird

 

where is the catch can located
i tried finding it
and was confused wat if take out some essential components for my AC?

 

Catch can is just that. It catches the oil in a can. It has nothing to do with AC.

 

Here is a fancy looking one

http://rx7.com/store/rx7/GReddyoilcatchcan.html

 

Stock doesn't have a catch can. They route the breathing to the plenum with the PCV and some more lines to the primary turbo intake (where the oil comes from). It's done this way so the engine eats it and it gets burned and out the exhaust. If you install a catch can, you will have to empty the oil ever so often.

thewird

 

thanx thanx man
i wana do it rite now
will any oil catch .... do the job?
or u recommend one!!!

 

Personally I'd just leave it alone unless you go single. It's not really hurting anything.

thewird

 

If you really need to get an oil catch can, a GReddy one is good enough..... Sometime you can find it in the classified section for $70-90-ish....