A few issues; starting, oil, etc.

[MoparFan1]

Hey, car is a '91 Daytona Shelby, w/ a swapped in '89 2.2 TII commonblock.

Has a ported head w/ new valvetrain, T3/T4 Hybrid, open ported 2.5" swingvalve, ported exhaust mani, 2.5" mandrel intercooler plumbing, SRT4 intercooler, +40's, 255 L/HR pump, custom cal, etc. etc.

1) The car doesn't like to start when warm. Cold start, it fires up perfectly on the first crank. Once its warm, it does not like to start at all. It seems like if it doesn't start on the first few cranks (and when it does, its very weak and you have to play with the gas to get it idling normal), then it won't start until the car has cooled down.

Has a new distributor, rotor, plugs, wires, and ignition timing is dead on. I'm sure cam timing is right, but MAYBE it's off one tooth. Seems to be running too strong to be off one tooth on the cam timing though...

2) The engine has shot off the cam plug on the driver side of the head (the little round "plug" that fits inside the head, right beside the throttle body) twice now. I put gasket sealer on it, pressed it back into place and it hasn't come out yet. But, now my dipstick likes to be pushed up and out of place PCV system problem?

I have the PCV system hooked up as follows: valve cover nipple right to the stock PCV valve "T", then the other end of the PCV valve to the stock intake mani PCV nipple. The last opening on the T goes to a vac source on the intake pipe before the turbo... This way seems to be causing a decent amount of oil to come into the intercooler pipes too, and I'm not too happy with it...

Ideas?

[turbomini]

you have realy bad blow by.. i'd stop driving the car now!!! and rebuild it! my sundance turbo has the same problem and i had to put a bolt in the pcv hose to get it to run to get home.....

[MoparFan1]

The car was running perfectly with a stock turbo at 21 PSI, and stock head... I am really doubting it's blow by all the sudden out of nowhere... But I guess I won't completely rule it out. When I had the head off, all the pistons looked MINT still, and it was pulling good compression too. I could do another compression test tomorrow.

This turbo seems to be pushing way more air though, had to put some spacers in the TXS BOV to stop it from leaking, where as it didn't leak at all on the old stock TII turbo.

By the way, plugs looked good...

[Dusty_Duster]

For the hot starting problem, it's a long shot, but did you check the AIS circuitry?

[MoparFan1]

It does have a brand new AIS and TPS... I never checked circuitry though?

[tryingbe]

What computers are you running?

[MoparFan1]

SBEC with a custom cal

[puppet]

If you blew a cam seal your obviously blowing oil right into the fresh air intake. Try a catch can of some sort.

Check the fuel pressure and see if it holds after the engine is shut down. I'd suspect a leaking FPR on the restart issues your having.

[MoparFan1]

Just checked compression....

From cylinders 1 to 4

Dry:

120
65
70
100

Wet:

125
85
90
120