Frustrated with oil consumption/whipple install

[turbohvn]

A very frustrated poster here... need some advice. Here is my issue. I have a 2016 GT PP. I ordered this car new and when it was ready to be delivered to the dealership, I met the delivery truck and took possession there. I mention this to indicate that the car has never been out of my possession, nor has anyone (outside of the factory/rail-yard) driven the car. My plan was always to install a Whipple and I have a stage 2 Whipple kit sitting in my garage waiting for me to install. I have been a gear-head for 40 years and at one time worked as a professional mechanic with all my ASE certs. That was back when we were still called mechanics and not technicians. I am also a professional mechanical engineer. When I started breaking in the car, I did not baby it, nor did I beat the heck out of it. I did a mix of around town and highway driving but always did "spirited driving" once oil was warmed up. The car has never seen redline, but lately I have been approaching that. Fairly low miles to date, approximately 1200. Reason low miles is the fact that I had a stroke and the subsequent recovery time.
Ok, that is the background, here is my dilemma/frustration: This car has consumed 2 qts of oil in this first 1200 miles! There are no leaks. I was told by Ford of course, that "this is normal" I say bullsh*t. Obviously that concerns me, and my frustration lies with the fact that I cannot install the Whipple until this is resolved as if I have to (worst case) get a replacement engine installed, I cannot do the warranty gig after the blower is installed. So I am on hold.
Who out there had a similar oil consumption issue and did it resolve itself or not. I know the Vodoo engines are having this issue, but there does not seem to be any complaints about the Coyote in general.
I have multiple vehicles with two of them having over 150000 miles and 20 years of age. None of them consume oil.
Thanks in advance for any advice/experience!

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[JC500]

I agree not normal at all. I have 2015 GT broke it it hard and easy driving. Mostly hard so the rings would set in and seal

I supercharged it with a Roush TVS at 13000 miles it now has 21000 miles and does not use a drop of oil. change oil every 3 k and it does not eat any oil

I would say ford needs to replace it

 

[mustang1]

take your car into shop for compression / leak down and get the numbers.

 

[sigintel]

Dont worry, these motors are tough as hell when assembled correctly. More than likely you are not completely broken in yet. If you were closer I'd say stop by and we'd check compression real quick.

Change oil and cut filter.

Go wail on it every shift till to redline. Or drive it harder like 4x 20 min session in HPDE shifting at redline. I have less blowby now after brutal tracking w Whipple for 11k miles than I did at 1000 miles when Whipple first went on. Prolly have over a thousand bounces off rev limiter on stock OPG and TG (CHT always over 185 first). Prolly 1000 more on billet OPG TG ATI.

It is possible you just got unlucky seating rings, or you have a bad ring, or just some pan, valve cover or minor leak that would really be no big deal.

Highly doubtful, but you could have a bad ring or cracked land.

If you have a bad oil ring or cracked land, you might prefer to grenade the engine to get a new one to avoid having a dealer try to reproduce factory grade engine assembly after attempting to trouble shoot and replace a single ring or piston. I know of a dealer that went thru that once burning over 2 months and said next 3 quart/1000 mile burner they get that only has 5k miles stock will likely get sent out back to be redlined by tech till dead to just get a full motor. Its somewhat not fair to techs who dont have repeated engine assembly experience to be expected to touch factory assembly.

 

[seth21w]

Mine used 1 quart in the break in period and I didn't change oil until 8k miles. So I would say it's unusually high consumption.

 

[Kong76]

I used quite a bit of oil for the first 2-3k miles. Give it till 2500 see what it does.

 

[ArabianOak]

i'm at 30000 miles now and mine used about 1/2 a quart to a quart between oil changes until I installed my 2.3 TVS supercharger...I've done about 2000 miles on the blown setup and now its now using ANY oil...lol. I guess the car finally got broken in with the new power adder.

i'd have ford do the leakdown/compression test as others have mentioned.

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