So, I bought my 2007 6mt coupe about three months ago. I've got about 34,000 miles and I really don't know if I burn oil. But, I'm intrigued by the possibility of driving the car hard to better the seals.

Should I be driving it hard like this even considering the mileage? Also, how long should I drive it like this?

 

Sure yeah, like 1000 miles of brutal attack.

 

since the car is used who really knows.

You best bet is to stay ontop of the oil for a few K miles.... hold off on modding the car until you know for sure you are good.

then beat on it like a raped ape!

LOL

 

If you have had it for 3 months that's long enough to know if you have been checking your oil.

At 34k the method described here is not going to do much of anything. It works during engine break in. At this point your engine is what it is

 

Nah read closer I did this stuff at 27,000 miles............................

 

I'm at about 60k on my Sedan 6MT. I never checked for burning oil but given my mileage, would you suggest that I do this fix?

 

There's a lot of controversy when it comes to breaking in an engine. Some schools of thought say to beat it from the get go, others say baby it for certain lengths of time, with frequent oil changes. Here's some interesting information. Make your own decisions...

http://www.ntnoa.org/enginebreakin.htm

and the VERY controversial...

http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

 

Controversial? I just proved goin hard is your best bet, during the first several hundred miles however? That's where I break from mototune's theory. Go hard yes, but after you go moderately. A TWO phase break-in.

Again, I DID THIS AT 27K MILES! There is no break-in window of time, stop reading the myths, damn. You got evidence staring you in the face.

 

SlickSilverG, did you ever have any intake work done? Like MREV2, Spacer?

 

Nothing, bone stock except a filter, which I got after the fix.

 

k thanks

 

Well I've read most of your threads because I have the same issue but I think I'm gonna go for the new motor and see how that works out and then possibly try your method if the new engine don't fix it.

 

All that im saying is that once I took my intake work off my new engine. It doesnt burn a drop of oil. I got my oil changed at Walmart by a friend of mine this past weekend at 5k miles from the last oil change. He showed me the old oil. It was 5 quarts exactly and it wasnt mucked up like my previous engine.

I say that if you have intake work, bring the car back to stock. If not, get a new engine. Also, to kindof agree with SlickSilverG. its been about 15k miles on this new engine, so there is a possibility that after breaking in the engine for 15k, the piston rings seated themselves perfectly.

Just my .02

 

UPDATE:

I regret to inform everyone. That this seemingly is NOT a fix, although it did seem like it for months. I am taking my words back, for the sake of truth over hope. Although I really did believe it stopped forever, but that's not the case anymore.

I went to check my oil after 4k miles this time (2nd oil change after the 'fix'), and I noticed my oil was a tad below L. So this is NOT a permanent fix. It went right back to normal oil burn/usage I suppose after I resumed driving normal again. Although it did survive not burning any oil for one full oil change AFTER all the hard driving I did. So there seems to be some residual effect that wears off over time?

Sucks really does, shoots hope and theory right in the eye. But the fact of the matter is, for SOME reason oil does not burn if you drive really HARD on our cars/engines. But if you fully resume to just cruising around driving like you own a civic, it will go back to eating up oil, sooner or later.

To make sense of it all, all I can say is I guess our engines were made to GO, and making them put-put around is not what they were meant to do.

Guess I'm just happy it only burns a third of a quart every thousand miles, and its good to know that driving her hard is only good in keeping it from burning more. Nothing more to say really...

 

Sorry to hear about the oil burning again. But driving the car hard does seem to lessen oil burn though.