can a blown turbine seal hurt performance to day my car was pouring white smoke out my tail pipe when is was cold but when it warmed up it stopped

i drove it and it felt slower to but its still boosting

i got no shaft play on the comp wheel

its a t3/t04e i just put on i got about 600miles on it

 

I would watch your oil levels.

Burning oil is not good and sooner or later, you need to fix that turbo. Better now than later.

Mine cost a little over 300 to get the O-rings redone.

 

correct me if i am wrong. but when is white smoke caused by oil. i thought it was water. any was see what it smells like. their are 2 types of burnt oil smells. one when oil cooks off of something hot like when your turbo leaks and the second when the oil is burned in the combustion chamber.

 

Water does not smoke. That was one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Water evaporates, producing steam - white steam. Oil burns, and produces white smoke when burnt off of a hot surface as it does when there is a seal leak.

 

ok jack *** i am always nice to people on this forum look at this bitch:

Thick white smoke: Call a tow truck.

Unlike the wispy white vapor described above, billowing white smoke is almost always an indication of serious engine trouble, and warrants immediate attention. If you continue to drive the vehicle, the engine could overheat and suffer extensive damage. Smoke of this sort is usually caused by the engine burning coolant, and can be the result of a blown head gasket or a damaged cylinder head, or a cracked engine block, which requires a new engine or an engine rebuild. Even a small coolant leak can lower the engine's coolant level, resulting in overheating and, potentially, catastrophic engine damage. A coolant leak into the engine's oil system may not cause any tailpipe smoke but could cause the oil to become thin and milky looking, and cause the coolant to look like brownish sludge. This, too, requires immediate attention.


you can look at the whole page here:

http://autos.yahoo.com/consumerreports/safer.html

 

sounds like a headgasket problem..i blew mine running 80 nos direct port.. (nos not my friend anymore )


[Modified by b18tdelsol, 9:54 PM 5/20/2002]

 

its a fresh bulit motor with only 600miles on it i have not even boosted over 5 psi yet if it was a headgasket it would smoke at all time not when just cold

i know its my turbo i can see the oil leaking in my down pipe when the turbo is cold

 

theres nothing wrong with my new built motor

only 600miles on it

 

so you are saying just because it is new that there could be nothing wrong with it? wake up man **** happens. do a compression check then you can rule out your motor. take 20 minutes tops.

 

it won't really hurt your performance but be careful -- i've heard of one instance where blown turbo oil seals caused oil to go through the intake piping and into the engine, where it then collected in cylinder 4; this caused higher compression in that cylinder and the guy eventually blew his motor because of that higher compression!

-Xerxes

 

do you have an a/f ratio gauge. when my turbo finally blew every light on the gauge would light up. and the car ran like ****.

 

every light on my air/fuel has lit up and i got oil all in my tail pipe