When I bought my brick, almost two months ago, was getting pretty high oil consumption, about 1 qt per 1000 miles. Sometimes slightly worse. Checked the hose fitting where a flame trap would be if it was not a turbo and cleaned it out. It was not clogged prior to cleaning. Due to constraints on my time have done nothing to breather box yet. Did replace the seal/gasket on the oil filler cap and changed oil over to Mobil 1 (PO used dino oil). Now it is not spilling oil on top of valve cover and oil consumption is at 1/4 qt or less in the approx 1200 miles since replacement of seal and switch to synthetic. I realize that this sure looks like my breather was clear and all my oil "use" was loss due to seepage around filler cap.

Since this is a dramatic change, I'm asking for any and all comments from you guys. I just want to make sure that everything is as okay as it seems before I get too happy about it. What are your thoughts?

And, yes, I will clean out the breather anyway, I just got the car and have no idea of when it was done last.