Yep, your valve cover gasket is leaking. Looks like someone over-torqued down the bolts to me or it just went bad in that area. Your Corvette racing must have agitated the poor thing and made it worse.

Its time to whip by the Hyundai dealership and get yourself a new gasket. Spending money everywhere nowadays aren't ya Kit? First tires, then rims, now this. And who knows how much gas you go through... LOL.

 

over tourqed? lol bah humbug, i havent even touched that in over 2 years, if i take the heat shield of will that be bad? how much is a gasket? and can i get it at autozone? how much at the dealer?

Me how much gas i go through? well, lets just say u know those little cards u get and u like get 5 free gallons of gas for every 100 you buy, well, lets say i fill those cards out twice a week lol. Rims, well the old ones got broke since that damn probe clipped me soo its a good excuse to get new ones lol. Tires, well, tires i get every 6 months so well, ok i have no excuse for that, lol.

 

Heat shield is no problem... unless the extra heat fries the alternator and you have yet another problem you have to fix... LOL.

The gasket shouldn't be more than $30.00 or so and it might take 20 minutes to replace.

 

the headers are stock (i know i know, im working on it lol) u think if i took it off they might overheat something? 30.00$ thats all 02.gif awww, i was hoping for spending more, lol ive melted in soo much money into him lately and now i go down to 30$ 02.gif lol, well w/e, its not somethign i have to do ASAP though is it? can i get it from like the Autozone or somewhere else or does it have to be from the dealer?

 

Heat might effect it... considering you love high RPM... it probably would effect it... LOL. Its a dealer part, unless Autozone caters to Tiburons in your area.

 

lol, mmmm high rpm's *drool* lemme ask you something, is it normal for the whole car to shake if its at the top of redline way over 7000 RPM's? like i mean the whole car to literaly start shaking lol, btw the peeps at the autozone know me by first name lol, but they dont carry parts for me, lol, i had to get my stabelizer link from the dealer and pay out the ass for that, lol u forgot to mention that when u listed the stuff i bought lately lol. if i were to get new headers would i still need to keep the heat shield?

 

haha you bastard. jk jk. no but really man a couple things about that. yes in the pic it was rediculously dirty, but the lighting in the pic made it look even worse. Also, i cleaned it not too long after that and i dont know if my splash guards on the bottom of my car are like non existant or what, but like 2 days after i cleaned it it was just nasty again (minnesota weather.... snow sand, dirt, water, etc...) I have NEVER seen a car get that dirty that fast in my life.... apparently its just my car that does it tho.... 02.gif

 

ok kit... you were doing some racing.. hopefully at a track... and now you have seepage from the valve cover... totally normal. You were stressing your engine big time and the breather was not able to keep up with the blowby.. so your crankcase got pressurised and the weakest seal gave way.. the rubber gasket on the valve cover. I would not worry about the valve cover, but I would start to wonder why you had so much pressure inside the crankcase.. how many miles on your tib and how much oil do you use between changes?

You might want to consider having a leakdown test done.

 

Mad, you know he wasn't at the track... tongue.gif Kit, now that Mad mentions it, check the lines that go from the crankcase into the throttle body and see if they got clogged. If they don't vent well, it might have been overpressurized. I would hope that would be the only problem, or the gasket just being weak from time.

 

Take it easy on your car Kit..lol. If you keep going to 7,000rpms like that, your gonna have more problems then replacing a valve cover gasket