No sitting anymore. It's my daily driver. I know it's not a dead animal, and definitely not skunk. This is petroleum in nature. Kinda smells like gear oil. Old nasty gear oil.

I've been under the hood all day- Well, actually, I finally removed the hood. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I can't find the source of my smell yet, but I have come across lots of other stuff that needs attention.

I checked the IC pipes and the tip of the turbo. Very little shaft play, and spins nice and freely. Still nice and dry... dirty, like regular old, livin' in the desert, DIRT, but no oil. I patched up some holes in the air can that I had neglected to attend to earlier. Might explain the dirt? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" />
I had the IC pipes opened up just the other day to check them for oil. Wanted to check, because I'm re-adding an oil separation device for the rear valve cover port and tying it in to the acordian boot. Only difference between this setup and the factory one is that I'll need to drain the can, instead of it draining into the pan. I've also added a small separator in the PCV hose between the PCV and the plenum. It's catching about 2tbsp per day, of really nasty, frothy white water/oil mix. Nice to not be burning that anymore. My smoky warm up is now gone.
I found a bad fuel leak on my #4 injector. The upper O-ring was not seating in the fuel rail. Might explain why it always smells gassy, especially under boost. I've got to go out in the morning and get a few things. I want to make the fuel rail a little (a lot) easier to access. I did lots of things while in the build process that seemed like a great idea at the time, but now are just a pain in the arse.

I checked the plugs- They look bad. Not terrible, but bad. 2,3, and 4 are just black, sooty, over rich. #1 is blown apart and melted. I've also been reading up, and I don't know how, but where most questers are running 7s, 8s or even 9s, I've got 5s in here??? Don't know how I wound up with that hot of a plug, but it may answer some of my previous "head feels really hot even though the water isn't" questions.

Under the valve cover looks great. Oil looks nice and not burned up, no grinding away like last time around.

Don't quite know where to go next- Got to get this stuff buttoned up first I guess.

Any other ideas? I'm all ears <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />