meliketoball
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jan 4, 2007
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Bay Area, CA,
California
Well first off, I have a 2gb 7-bolt (1997) with 190,
miles on her. My motor is all stock, running stock piping to the t-25 small. Other things, to let you guys know. I have a k&n air filter intake cone, a HKS ssqv (re-circulated) and a muffler tip with NGK bpr7es's.
-The problem with my car is that it burns oil and it smokes blue.
-I lose quite a bit of oil a week; probably half a quart a week.
-And when blue smoke dumps out my tail pipe it is usually when I take off from a stop light and happens worse when I let it idle for a bit.
-My car is turbo timed @ 30 seconds everyday and after a hard worth of driving, 1 minute to cool and boosts fine at all numbers between 1-14 psi.
-Well one day, I just got fed up with adding oil almost every 3 days and thinking that it was my turbo so I bought another t-25 small for 100 bucks locally and only having 17,000 miles on it along with BAER rotors drilled and slotted rotors for 20
.
-Before I get to work on my car, I just wanted to make sure that it is my turbo that has bad seals and so I know I fixed this damn problem or my cylinder head needs work.
Note: Another thing, I forgot to mention at the beginning of the post, I discovered that oil, leaks/spurts out of my exhaust manifold and right past the gasket.
-I took the ex.manifold off and examined it.
-I saw that there was a lot of ashy like build up at the ports of the ex.manifold and at the ends of the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
-I diagnosed that it was normal build up from the 190, miles on her and diagnosed that the oil is comming from my turbo whenever I boost, oil would seap past the seals, up the ex.mani and from the sides of it when I saw it. Right or wrong?
My turbocharger or valve guide or stem seals?
Thanks so much for reading guys!
(I'll take pics of my turbo OE swap/replacement for everyone and post it.)
miles on her. My motor is all stock, running stock piping to the t-25 small. Other things, to let you guys know. I have a k&n air filter intake cone, a HKS ssqv (re-circulated) and a muffler tip with NGK bpr7es's.-The problem with my car is that it burns oil and it smokes blue.
-I lose quite a bit of oil a week; probably half a quart a week.
-And when blue smoke dumps out my tail pipe it is usually when I take off from a stop light and happens worse when I let it idle for a bit.
-My car is turbo timed @ 30 seconds everyday and after a hard worth of driving, 1 minute to cool and boosts fine at all numbers between 1-14 psi.
-Well one day, I just got fed up with adding oil almost every 3 days and thinking that it was my turbo so I bought another t-25 small for 100 bucks locally and only having 17,000 miles on it along with BAER rotors drilled and slotted rotors for 20
.-Before I get to work on my car, I just wanted to make sure that it is my turbo that has bad seals and so I know I fixed this damn problem or my cylinder head needs work.
Note: Another thing, I forgot to mention at the beginning of the post, I discovered that oil, leaks/spurts out of my exhaust manifold and right past the gasket.
-I took the ex.manifold off and examined it.
-I saw that there was a lot of ashy like build up at the ports of the ex.manifold and at the ends of the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
-I diagnosed that it was normal build up from the 190,
miles on her and diagnosed that the oil is comming from my turbo whenever I boost, oil would seap past the seals, up the ex.mani and from the sides of it when I saw it. Right or wrong?My turbocharger or valve guide or stem seals?
Thanks so much for reading guys!
(I'll take pics of my turbo OE swap/replacement for everyone and post it.)
I really don't know what to do. I am 18 and don't have a lot of cash to take it to a shop and all because..I don't know how to do timing..
If it that part was taken out, it would be a breeze to do. 
