I got a piston and rod SOHC Vtec turbo on 11 psi off a small turbo. The car still runs great and pulls very hard but its smoking even at idle. It looks like white smoke to me and it rained alot yesterday but water was getting all over my rearlip probably from the rain getting into my exhaust somehow. I noticed yesterday when my radiator fan cut on the smoke cleared up for that 10-15 seconds it was on. I took it for a hard run down the street and back today and the smoke did'nt clear up when the fan cut on so i dunno.

In my expercience white smoke means coolant in the combustion chamber. But the car has'nt lost a drop of coolant i've been checking it daily. It burns alittle oil i might add a 1/2 quart every 6 weeks or so.

Any ideas i can't stand a smoking car i can deal with smoke while under boost but not while idleing. Also when normal driving my buddy says he sees no smoke until i boost or idleing. The car has never ran hot at all.

I can't figure out if its a pinhole leak in the headgasket,rings or valve seals any suggestions on what to check out.

 

Today my wastegate decided to come loose so i tightened it up before leaving work. Right before i pulled in the driveway i did a 3rd gear pull to see if it was holding boost fine and it was. So left it running and thier was no smoke at all till a few minutes later then it started coming out. It smelled today like burnt oil but it still had a white color to it.

I'm stumped i'm gonna change the oil,plugs etc and do a compression test this week. I'm gonna go pull my chargepipes maybe tonight.

The car runs fine perfectly normal but the smoke is driving me crazy.

 

do you think u have a leak in your intake mani... is your intake mani tight ?white smoke = 2 much air possibly?

 

how thick is the smoke? I blew white smoke when my turbo seal went out

 

pulled the chargpipes at the TB its really clean. At the turbo it looks to have alil dryed up looking oil but nothing huge.

It smokes the worst at idle and when the cooling fan cuts on it clears right up soon has it goes back off it startes smoking again.

I'm thinking about going from 10w 30 synthetic up to 10w 40synthetic but i may just need to switch to a regular conventional 10w 40 maybe the thicker oil will help..

 

sounds like burning oil to me

 

Yeah but from where turbo,valve seals,rings?

its not losing a noticeable amount of oil.

The car runs great i have 0 issues other then the smoking just annoys the **** outta me.