[rayfl]

Original stock charge pipe cracked at intake manifold... replaced with VRSF from ECS tuning, shortly after low engine oil message came on to add some (1 qt). I was slightly past my oil change, car has just under 50k, so I assumed maybe it was using oil at this time and thought nothing of it. Saw oil spots on my driveway, but thought it might have been when I topped it at the parts store and didn't have a funnel it was just some excess run-off, but now after the light going off the second time today, I realized it's an decent oil leak somewhere.

Considering I had no oil leak before the charge pipe, I'm going to assume putting on the new charge pipe has now eliminated it as the weak spot and another location with seals is now leaking?

From what I can see, the oil leak is happening somewhere under the charge pipe, below the intake manifold slightly toward the driver seat. There was some slight oil directly on top of the silicon coupler, which I assume is splatter going around.

Any thoughts? I bet I lost a quart or more over the course of a week since the this is the second time today the oil light came on.

[Eschmacher]

No way your charge pipe has anything to do with an oil leak. The only thing moving through it is air, unless maybe your turbo seal is dumping oil into the intercooler, which is unlikely.
Check around your oil filter housing - I'll bet that's where the leak is, if it's on the driver side. The timing is probably pure coincidence.

[14F30Daily]

additionally a qt is not a small amount of oil to leak. have you been finding oil on the ground or have you taken the belly pan off to see how that looks?

[rjd_F30]

My old N20 had lots of oil in the chargepipe, a result of blowby and no catch can, which shouldn't be the case in the first place, but to leak an entire qt out of chargepipe is pretty ridiculous. It's likely you have a leak somewhere else unrelated. I'd start by checking the common spots.