I'm runnin 5 psi daily on my 93 teg and lately it's been smoking a bit when I boost between about 4,500 - redline. I checked out a few things under the hood and I noticed that with the car running I popped off the breather hose for the valve cover and there was light smoke puffing out of it. I ran the car up the road for about 15 minutes driving it fairly hard and there was oil comming out of the valve cover vent hose (It was just chillin, wasn't connected to anything) It didn't matter with the breather hose connected or not it still smoked about the same amount when I got on it hard. I just wanna hear what you guys think could be causing this

 

sounds to me like you have broken ringlands on your pistons...

 

Another thing I should mention is that it doesn't smoke at all when it's idling. If I get on it hard then stop and let it idle it will smoke for a minute then clear right up and it's fine. It really doesn't smoke at all unless I get on it hard.

 

bump

 

ttt

 

turbo seals or ringlands. Turbo wont cause the smoke out the breather but if you have worn ring then that could.

 

****

 

that really sounds like rings

 

do a compression, leakdown test... remove the oil cap when the engine reaches normal operating temp, can you see blowby/compression gases?

 

if its smoking from the breather, your ringlands are toast, but if it only smokes out the exhaust then your compression rings are toast, thats normal. My motor smokes blue smoke like crazy but nothin our ot the breather because the motor has always been tunned so the ringlands are still good.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmhonda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if its smoking from the breather, your ringlands are toast, but if it only smokes out the exhaust then your compression rings are toast, thats normal. My motor smokes blue smoke like crazy but nothin our ot the breather because the motor has always been tunned so the ringlands are still good.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Elaborate, because I'm having the same problem. Blue smoke out the exhaust at WOT, but not from the breather or dipstick.

 

im burnin a quart of oil a week now.

 

my motor has 170k and its been boosted since 120k, and now i have a fully built motor goin in next week so i dont care about my stock one.

 

I took the oil cap off when it was running and sure enough there was oil splashin out and it was puffing smoke...
What could have caused this? I have had it boosted for about 3 months @ 4 psi now and I don't really get on it that much.

 

Dont blow the Old motor Sell it to Me !!!!!

Just Like said get a compresion Test done and since your getting a new built one put in save for tough times Or sell it to to me

 

How much longer will this thing last me? When I redline it there's quite a bit of smoke that gets burned... It will linger in the exaust for a few minutes til it clears up and then it's fine. If I drive around like a normal person it will not smoke one bit. Even if I get on it a little bit and maybe take it to 4,500 but not boost it won't really smoke. Its only when I beat the **** out of it with boost.
I also noticed some white gooey **** in my exaust which is obviously water mixing with the insane amount of oil pouring out of the exaust. I'm thinking it's from condensation in the exaust mixing with the oil. If it were a head gasket wouldn't it have to have coolant mixed with oil? Or do blown headgaskets not necessarily have to leak coolant into the oil?

I'll try my best not to boost and blow her up

 

any oil residue in your charge pipe?

 

yes... it blows out of my BOV

 

Had the same problem. Its in 100 peices because i am rebuilding it. My ringlands are shotski. Oh well its a good thing i like working on cars

 

its gone, start saving up.

 

haha, I checked my dip stick and oil cap and smoke comes out of both of them...

 

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