I started her up today found all the oil leaks and triple checked all the charge pipes and whatnot... I have no downpipe at all so i was running straight off the intenal wastegate mani... Theres alot of white smoke coming out the exhaust even after all the excess spilled oil burned away.. I took for a little drive down the street and i couldnt really build boost... one pull however it did manage to build about 5lbs in 4th but that was it and it wouldn't do it again... Would me not having a downpipe of any soft cause me not to build boost? Thanks for helpin a noob get his boost on!


Modified by milllllkman at 11:30 AM 7/7/2006

 

what kind of turbo? make sure your actuator is working properly

 

Wait had a hard time reading your post so i may not get this
but did you mean Dump Tube or Downpipe

You know the one that connect to your Exhaust system ?

Or did you mean the Dump Tube ?

 

I meant downpipe i have an internal gate so there isnt a dump tube.

 

Your turbo is probably sucking in exhaust and thats bad. Is the car even tuned??

 

uberdata street pre tuned

 

Id say u need a downpipe

 

yeah Get a Downpipe on there Quick

 

Park teh car and get a damn downpipe son

 

Get a downpipe. The turbo isnt building any boost because there isnt any backpressure.

Get a downpipe before you start driving it again.

 

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umm what? nope, that's not it.

anyhow definitely get a downpipe on that thing before you melt something, but white smoke? does it smell sickly sweet?

 

Get a downpipe on it and then see if the problem continues.

 

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anyhow definitely get a downpipe on that thing before you melt something, but white smoke? does it smell sickly sweet? </TD></TR></TABLE>
yes

 

when i first installed my turbo i wanted to see if it worked without the downpipe and it smoked a lot of white smoke, then I put one on and it stopped.

 

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yes the smoke smells sickly sweet? you're burning coolant. probably a blown head gasket.

 

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anyhow definitely get a downpipe on that thing before you melt something </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, or warp your hood. Or all the plastic stuff under the hood.