white smoke from left side only at wot?
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white smoke from left side only at wot? Well,
I had this white smoke issue before with the turbos, figured out they needed a oil feed restrictor, so i installed a 0.9mm restrictor on both sides, and that seemed to solve the problem.
Now, just a week ago, the white smoke came back, except this time it seems to come out the left tail pipe ONLY (no x or h pipe).
The first thing that came to mind was a bad piston ring seal, but did a compression test on the motor and all cylinders were fine, readings for 5 random cylinders at 115, one cylinder at 120 and one at 130.
Where and what should i look for now?
PS. I dont know how the shop did the restrictors, but im guessing they welded the individual feeds and drilled a 0.9mm hole through, but again it cured the problem until now, assuming it is indeed turbo related.
I had this white smoke issue before with the turbos, figured out they needed a oil feed restrictor, so i installed a 0.9mm restrictor on both sides, and that seemed to solve the problem.
Now, just a week ago, the white smoke came back, except this time it seems to come out the left tail pipe ONLY (no x or h pipe).
The first thing that came to mind was a bad piston ring seal, but did a compression test on the motor and all cylinders were fine, readings for 5 random cylinders at 115, one cylinder at 120 and one at 130.
Where and what should i look for now?
PS. I dont know how the shop did the restrictors, but im guessing they welded the individual feeds and drilled a 0.9mm hole through, but again it cured the problem until now, assuming it is indeed turbo related.
Last edited by ayousef; Oct 24, 2009 at 03:48 PM.
Are they water cooled ball bearing turbos?
Man you have had sooo many issues with this whole project. This sucks. I hope you can get it straightened out. I think it might be time for some stateside help though.
Man you have had sooo many issues with this whole project. This sucks. I hope you can get it straightened out. I think it might be time for some stateside help though.
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I actually lost interest in the car, its now parked at home, waiting for someone to buy it off me and continue the project.
probably a good time to stop, and no one to blame other than the people who INSTALLED everything here locally, simply put they dont know ****.
At least I learnt my lesson, the hard way and have $80K worth of mods lost, + another $82K for the price of a new C6 Z06.
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An oil change wont hurt, I can try that out.
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I know the fixes are easy, and im not just saying that to make myself feel better, im taking a small break for the time being, if I get all exited about it again I might send the car to the states right away and make Jim post up all the funny things he finds lol.
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