weird ass smoke!!! no start!!!

[gsxboostin]

:thumbdown ok, this car is gettin me REAL pissed off...i hope you can help because i am on boost withdrawl...really bad...haha. so here it goes: ok so i took my turbo and head off because i had to broken bolts on the turbine housing, and 4 broken exhaust manifold studs so i took those both into the machine shop and had them drilled out. in the process of taking the head off i made sure i removed the head bolts in sequence to the hanes manual. when i got the head back, i proceeded to put the turbo on, then the head, along with a new head gasket. during the head gasket/head intsall process i made sure i follow the sequence for instalation in the hanes manual. it said "follow the 3 stage sequence for instalation, see figure 21" so i look at the figure, and all it is is the damn picture of the bolt # order to follow. WTF...ok so i figure the 3 stage thing meant gradually tighten each stud to the actuall spec, so ok i do that, i go to every stud in order tighten each one till they are tight, tighter, and then torqe them. i finish the install and go to start it, i just cranks like the MPI fuse is pulled...so i check everything three times over. it has spark, fuel, pressure everything, ok...so when i try cranking it again, it starts to smoke mediocre style by the block/head and powersteering areaits like a greyish black smoke. the only thing i came up with is that the head is warped from the way i tightend it down. if you can help that would be awesome Thanks -Matt

P.S.- sorry for writting a book...!

 

[TurboGarageTech]

The three stage tightening they speak of means tighten ALL the bolts in order to 1/3 the spec, then go back and tighten each one to 2/3 spec, then each one to spec. I figure this is what you mean, but it sounded like you took each individual bolt and just took three tries to get it to spec. Not the end of the world, but not the right way to do it.

If I had to guess, that smoke is all the hand oil and crap burning off the manifold and turbo. Every time I swap a turbo on a car it gets a lot of underhood smoke until everything torches off. Give it a little time and see if it starts to go away.

Good luck,

Ryan

 

[gsxboostin]

yeah i thought that same thing about the smoke, that i could be jus stuff burning off, but it wasnt even gettin hot enough to burn ne thing yet, i mean i felt the exhaust mani it was still cold after crankin and crankin on it. and i have a ? about the spec stuff, what do you mean by 2/3 spec, should i go through them and losen them in sequence then re tighten? in what way? haha i sound retarded i think...haha i hate when i sound dumb.