VTC_CiViC

I went ahead and tied up some loose ends on the Integra last night, and upon pulling the vacuum hose off the nipple on the bottom of the compressor housing, I had a nice amount of oil spil out all over my face (doh!). Now call me crazy but uh.. there really shouldn't be any oil in the compressor housing now should there!?

I checked the charge piping and it was relativley clean, the usual amount of grime but nothing out of the ordinary, plugs looked ok after a WOT pull also (little ashy). Now the car doesn't smoke at all at idle or normal driving. Puffs a little black at WOT and sometimes after a hard throtle run it'll puff blue for a couple seconds and clean right up.. so, anybody seen this before?

FredoSP

If it was me Id start out with a leak down and a compression test.

VTC_CiViC

Compression test is perfect, I think it was 195 accross the board. The engine isn't consuming oil (though my turbo setup was leaking like mad!), it's just having that puddle of oil in the compresor housing that scares me. BTW, I left that port open and now run the side port on the Tial to a vacuum source.

b18bturbo

what kinda of pressuer are you feedin the turbo is it large -4 line or -3 maybe could be overpressuring the turbo cartridge and it shooting out

VTC_CiViC

-3, same one I used on my T04E, infact it's completley the same feed/return setup, kinda weird now to be puddling all of a sudden.

b18bturbo

yeah i would have to agree.. thats doesnt make any sense then. unless the seals are gone which could cause it