Quote Originally Posted by caljones View Post
Hey, I have a 94 Sedan with a d16y1, about 220Km's.

It's using a lot of oil, im guessing about a litre of oil for each tank of fuel.
It's defuinitely not leaking, i have double checked this, it must be burning it as there is black soot over the back of my car, and smokes on hard accelerating.
The oil im using is penrite 20w60.
On startup it splutters a bit of black stuff onto the driveway.


I originally thought it was the rings, but tested the compression and all 4 were 180 psi.

I was then told it could be the valve stem seals, is there a way of checking this? Could it be anything else?
Dry compression would not tell if oil rings are bad. what you should do is to pour a lil bit of oil in each cylinder. if the compression goes up. that's mean oil ring are bad if they stay the same than the seals are bad.
Honda from what i know they use 1 oil ring and 2 compression ring, so possibly oil rings are cracked, broken... Just do wet compression again.
Note: after you finish the wet compression it's gonna smoke hell a lot for 10-15min