Turbos Blowing Smoke!
-Joel-
11-17-2001, 08:36 PM
My car wasn't started for around 1-2 weeks..
On startup it fired up first time as usuall.
Once It had warmed up I drove it off boost to the servo etc.. About 1kms away..
Pulling out from the servo I gave it a bit through first to get out in front of some traffic..
Looking in my revision mirror all I could see was white smoke...
I Waited at the traffic lights.. Turned right and nailed it properly this time through first, second, and third... up to 140+ clicks.. But nothing I didn't see a puff of smoke.. It was only the first time I put my foot in to it a little....
I quized the car yard joint from whom i purchased the car from and they said..
"Yer they tend to do that after they havn't been started for a while coz there are oil seals in the turbo and when a car hasn't been driven for a while the oil can leak in to the turbo?!?!?
Is this correct? Or is my turbo slowly going?
Aftersales warranty = :flipa:
On startup it fired up first time as usuall.
Once It had warmed up I drove it off boost to the servo etc.. About 1kms away..
Pulling out from the servo I gave it a bit through first to get out in front of some traffic..
Looking in my revision mirror all I could see was white smoke...
I Waited at the traffic lights.. Turned right and nailed it properly this time through first, second, and third... up to 140+ clicks.. But nothing I didn't see a puff of smoke.. It was only the first time I put my foot in to it a little....
I quized the car yard joint from whom i purchased the car from and they said..
"Yer they tend to do that after they havn't been started for a while coz there are oil seals in the turbo and when a car hasn't been driven for a while the oil can leak in to the turbo?!?!?
Is this correct? Or is my turbo slowly going?
Aftersales warranty = :flipa:
GTS-4 Ben
11-17-2001, 10:50 PM
thats pretty normal. When things sit oil seeps into other places and will cause that.
Normally if your turbo seals are gone you will see blue smoke.
Ben
Normally if your turbo seals are gone you will see blue smoke.
Ben
Rmonckt
11-19-2001, 11:05 PM
I once went for a test drive in a Skyline (was sitting in the yard for a few weeks) and I noticed a heap of white smoke as well. The dealer says most of them do it........
Cheers
Rob
Cheers
Rob
hdtboy
12-20-2001, 04:27 PM
That wasn't the turbo, that was your tyres man. you've got a turbo skyline, it's inevitable.:bonghitte :
-Joel-
12-20-2001, 05:18 PM
Yer she hasn't done it since and last time I got her dyno's stock everything she got 125rwkw at RPM Performance in Adelaide.
Definately getting the Power Bug now.. itch itch itch itch
Definately getting the Power Bug now.. itch itch itch itch
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