white smoke

[aznbmxxxer]

i have a used t3 turbo installed and when i drive the car a little hard i let it idle for a while, and then shut it down, but when i start the car back up there is a lot of white smoke comming out of the muffler. eventually it will stop smoking until i drive it hard again. did i blow my motor or is the seals in the turbo just bad? if its just the turbo can i still use the turbo for a little?

[PunkAlex]

hmmm....

Black Smoke=burning oil
Blue Smoke=Burning coolant
White smoke=Running rich? Lean? or is this the coolant one?

Eh tried to help

[whtteg]

Black smoke = running rich
White smoke = burning coolant
Grey/bluish = burning oil

Are you loosing any coolant? Also th last time you changed your oil did it look funny, milky, or foamy? If it is doing this in the mourning after the car has been sitting for a while then it is normal, unless it is doing it after the car is up to operating temp.

[PunkAlex]

Originally Posted by whtteg

Black smoke = running rich
White smoke = burning coolant
Grey/bluish = burning oil

HAH HAH holy shit i was way fucking off!

[Poison Rice]

I see on TV when a race car F*cks a turbo, it has a BIG plume of white very white smoke......and Lots of it too.....

[IntegraB18LS]

does it smell like gas oil or coolent? white smoke is usally leaking head gasket but alot of times it will smoke white with just a little bit of oil

[aznbmxxxer]

it doesn't smell like any of those. this smell is weird, i never smelled anything like it. its hard to explain what it smells like. but it doens't do it anymore, it probably will when i drive it hard again. my friend siad that when i floored it there was a big puff of white smoke, and then black smoke. it didnt keep smoking after i shut it down and turned it back on. so i have no idea now what it can be now.

[killah_xft]

run your car for a while, then check the seals on the turbo, and on the head.. you can also crack the intake manifold off the engine and check for oil on the inside of the intake. I would say the white smoke is from burning oil that is either in your intake, and finding it's way to the cylinders, or you have oil in your exhaust that is heating up and burning in your exhaust..

[Polygon]

Well, if it was just a quick puff of white smoke I would suspect a small amount of oil being burnt. If you get a long duration of white smoke then you have coolant getting into the engine usually via a blown head gasket or sometimes a cracked block or head. The black smoke was probably just carbon deposits, nothing to worry about.

[integra111]

MY car shoots out white smoke also. Big puffs when 1st turn on. I dont think the turbo is causing. I have a leaking head gasket, check out your head gasket i think thats my problem, i also have 210k miles

[brianssteg]

when i hit the gas on my car take it to high rpm's then let off the gas or shift gears a cloud of smoke comes out of my exhaust and then sometimes it seams like its coming through my floor board. what could this be?