what does this sound like?

[97gstnick]

ok guys, i need som advice on what i should look for.

i took my friend for a ride in my car last night and did a couple of runs. after i stopped, i notcie a whole bunch of white looking smoke just pouring out my exhaust. now that is how my car drives, with smoke pouring out. i cant drive it anymore, it is way too embarassing. i was thinkin maybe blown head gasket? or turbo seals? what you guys think? and what should i look for? thanks once again.

 

[I-luv-em-all]

Sounds like a blown head gasket to me. Do a compression test and post the results and we should be able to tell you what it is.

 

[97gstnick]

so what do you think i should buy for a head gasket change? maybe a 4 layer steel head gasket and some arp head studs? what else?

 

[ddavisaf]

He said....

Sounds like a blown head gasket to me. Do a compression test and post the results and we should be able to tell you what it is.

Are you losing any fluids? Is your car overheating? Post back with your compression test numbers.

 

[97gstnick]

only thing its burning is oil. not over heating, no loss of coolant. just smokes like nothing ive seen. looks like im doing a huge burnout the whole way. so bad that i cannot go on like that.

 

[sr22tsi]

If its oil, I believe the smoke would be black or bluish. My friend had his turbo selas go out on his t25 se-r and it was a blackish bluish color. Sounds like a head gasket to me.

 

[ddavisaf]

You might want to listen closer...

If you're not losing coolant I would investigate other possiblities besides a headgasket.
We're still waiting for your compression test numbers.
While we wait check your intercooler pipe. The lower one off the turbo. Check for a mass amount of oil to spew out of it when you take it off.
If nothing, then unbolt your exhaust manifold and look to see if you're losing a bunch of oil out of the exhaust runners.

 

[97gstnick]

You might want to listen closer...

If you're not losing coolant I would investigate other possiblities besides a headgasket.
We're still waiting for your compression test numbers.
While we wait check your intercooler pipe. The lower one off the turbo. Check for a mass amount of oil to spew out of it when you take it off.
If nothing, then unbolt your exhaust manifold and look to see if you're losing a bunch of oil out of the exhaust runners.

thank you for bringin that up. i forgot about checkin those things. i will be compression testing it in about an hour.

oh by the way, when i was driving. some old man rolled up next to me and said "its your modulator! thats why its smoking" and then he drove off. what the hell could he be talking about?

 

[akdsmer]

"its your modulator! thats why its smoking" and then he drove off. what the hell could he be talking about?

Back in "the day", vehicle transmissions used manifold vacuum to help determine shift points. The hose ran to a vacuum modulator on the transmission. Sometimes when the modulator failed, it allowed the manifold vacuum to "suck" tranny fluid into the engine causing a pretty nice fog out of tailpipe...and gave you that "high performance"shift at 6K RPMs.

 

[945liter]

Any updates? thats my same problem.. but my compression came out 160 160 160 160

 

[ddavisaf]

What other steps have you taken to trouble shoot?

 

[Rod4g63]

Sounds like a valve seal issue to me.

 

[Game Over]

Sounds like a valve seal issue to me.

Valve seals are blueish smoke only at take-off. If compression is fine, it will 99% be your turbo. Have you checked for shaft play yet? How many miles are on it?

 

[97gstnick]

dammit, havent done a compression test yet, but doing it for sure this weekend. i believe it might be turbo. it smokes ALL the time. smokes very heavily just sitting and smokes more when i drive. like i said, its pretty bad. it looks like im doing a burnout. probably barely have a couple thousand miles on the turbo, shaft play seems kinda bad. but it was a little wiggly when i first got it. it seems worse, but im not positive.