bnut510

running stock internals... with a t3/to4e turbo, 255 fuel pump, fmu, missing link, stock injectors, a p28 chipped ecu for chrome. my problem is that my car has been burning oil like a champ lately... about 1 qt every 3 days or so, i have been driving it lately for a daily driver... about 60 miles a day in ca weather. i notice white smoke coming out when i give it the gas. o yeh and i havent tuned it yet... im thinking thats the main problem... but the reason y i havent tuned it yet is because im not sure if the problem is internal? i dont think its the oil seal on the turbo because there is no oil coming out of it when i pull out the intercooler pipes. but i have oil in the intercooler for some reason? anyone have this problem or any input that could help me out? thanks for any advice... i know i know... get it tuned.. but what do u guys think?

Finland

read the plugs and do a compression test, if that comes out fine, then maybe the turbo, but I doubt it..

As far as the oil in your intercooler..think of it as an accumulator. Oil mist is blown in by your turbo (which must have a minor leak), then it accumulates in the IC.

bnut510

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yeh i think im gonna run a compression test this weekend... but will that determine a seal is busted internally? sorry if that might seem kinda like a noob question but i kinda am... still trying to learn from all this. also... could it be the pcv valve? ive heard people talking about this, and that i should get that checked out as well. and what could be another possibility in blowing out white smoke when i give it the gas? could that mean im running way too rich? i also heard people telling me to ditch the fmu when i get it tuned? kinda sick of paying for oil, gas is breakin my pockets bad enough! thanks for any advice folks

Finland

white smoke is from coolant. Black is from running too rich, blue is from oil.

Ditch the FMU asap and invest in some proper management.

bnut510

what color would it be if its running lean? i thnk my car runs lean when i hit vtec cuz it bogs out. does that sound right? when i was running the 6lb spring it was coo...but after i put in the 9lb spring... it bogs when it hits higher rpm.. probably another tuning issue im sure.

reactiondc2

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bnut510 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what color would it be if its running lean? . </TD></TR></TABLE>blue cause that means you prolly cracked your pistons and its burning oil

nonvtecD

1. You cant run an FMU and crome 2. You cant run crome with stock injectors 3. Running lean does not make smoke it just melts things. Do a compression test and then tune. After that you can narrow down the problem.

bnut510

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nonvtecD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">1. You cant run an FMU and crome 2. You cant run crome with stock injectors 3. Running lean does not make smoke it just melts things. Do a compression test and then tune. After that you can narrow down the problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeh i have an fmu in right now with crome... but i havent touched anything with tuning yet since i havent found the problem to my burning oil. what will the compression test tell me? lets say the compression is off... what signs could that be? or is that too broad of a question to ask?

nonvtecD

The compression test will tell you if you have dead cylinders or if the compression is just low. If your rings are just really beat then a good tune could be run reliably for a while. That oil in the IC is still strange to me though. The seals in the turbo are probably shot. It could be blowby too, as you suggested (PCV). There are numerous threads on catch cans which would help to evacuate blowby pressure. Seriously though, step 1 is a compression test, getting bigger injectors and getting your crome tuned.

blaze the chemi

Maybe a blown head gasket. Check the compression and this will tell you if internally something is bad. Then a leak down test if those cylinders come back wrong. +/- 10 psi variance between the cylinders. If you're not getting it tuned, then borrow a friends, or better yet, invest in a wideband O2 sensor. I bet you're misfiring. That's causing the bogging. Blown head gasket or I bet also a blown piston rings is your problem. Bad management....get it tuned

2kTeg

Ok i have said this before and ill say it again

WHITE SMOKE - is not always coolant, i had my oil return line kinked one time and it ******* dumped white smoke an insane amount of it i had quite a few uniformed people tell me it was blown headgasket. Can we please stop with the misinformation if you don't know please don't guess that helps nobody but maybe your ego cause you feel like you know what your talking about
My roomate had a stuck injector on his sr20det and guess what color smoke it was POURING out, WHITE it stunk like gas we fixed the injector no smoke
i fixed my oil return line NO smoke

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bnut510

thanks for the info fellaz

Stewie

I always tell people that synthetic burns white not blue