White Smoke / Car Is Smoking White [Merged 7-9]

[Apeximprt2nr]

Alright guys, well I just finished my 14B install in my 95 GSX. All is well besides some minor oil leaks on the return line and the SS feed line at the filter housing. There was also a VERY minor coolant leak from the front banjo bolt on the turbo. I tightened it a tad and I think i went away. Now the turbo is spooling really late because I think there may be a leak before the turbo.
Now on to the problems.

1. The turbo does not smoke at all besides at WOT sometimes it blows out whiteish grey smoke. I'm trying to think of where it could be burning coolant. It never did this before the turbo install.

2. There was some white smoke the past 2 days at the manifold. I'm thinking its the shitload of PB Blaster that I sprayed all over the car but I'm not sure.

3. There's a smell coming from my engine that I can smell if I pop my hood and it becomes more noticeable when I'm driving and really get on it. It smells like burning plastic sort of, with a mix of burning rubber. The lower heat shield is not on the car because it's a pain to get on and I haven't put it back on because I haven't had time. Nothing is touching anything hot so I 'm confused...The only possible thing is maybe I pout on a new 4 ply exhaust mani. gasket as well as antiseize on most of the bolts and the turbo-mani. bolts.

Any help? Thanks.

 

[Dsmj89]

Sounds like a bad turbo or head gasket. You need to do a compression test. You alo need take of the inlet pipe on the turbo and check for shaft play. White smoke usually idicated coolant burning.

+1. Do a compression test and report back. Your headgasket might be on it's way out.

 

[eclipertnr90]

alright tomorrow ill do take the radiator cap off.. and ill tell you what happens thank you everyone who has been helping me out! im really worrying about this because i just bought the car! and a headgasket is a big job, and expensive and i dont have too much money! does this sound like it is most likely the problem

could it just be that its cold outside? I let it warm up today tho for maybe 5 minutes and it still seemed to be smoking though so i dont know?

 

[1SickAuto]

no if the spark plugs are white, thats can be a big problem. theyre supposed to have a brownish/rusty color to them. white plugs means lean condition, which can lead to alot of problems. oh by the way what plugs are you using

 

[eclipertnr90]

the plugs have a black likeee powder on them? and there like blistered white? thats the description in the manual.. which is caused by too lean, not enough coolant running to hot?

what do i do about this

 

[1SickAuto]

is your coolant low, you said it was (coolant) spraying out cause the kid left the cap loose. you never notice this problem before or while u were looking at the car or have u had it a while and it just started doing this.

 

[eclipertnr90]

no i just bought the car.. and i just noticed it! to be honest I have NO idea how long it has been doing it the cap wasnt put on all the way

 

[1SickAuto]

man that blows, but there could be a few things it could be. alls i can say is drive the car (or let it run to operating temp) and then check fluids to see if theres any discoloration in them. check your coolant as well and u could be leaking oil into the cylinders and sometimes it can get into ## coolant but that real visable cause we all know SOME oils dont mix with water.

 

[eclipertnr90]

alright this might be weird im not too sure! but i changed my coolant and it didnt really seem like there was too much! it seemed kind of low? but when i put new coolant in and i let it run, it didnt smoke anymore? is this normal?

 

[eclipertnr90]

alright this might be weird im not too sure! but i changed my coolant and it didnt really seem like there was too much! it seemed kind of low? but when i put new coolant in and i let it run, it didnt smoke anymore? is this normal?

also before i changed the radiator fluid i took the cap off of the radiator, it was almost likethere was fizz? idk how to explain it no bubbles but like white fizz has anyone hear of this?

 

[eclipertnr90]

also before i changed the radiator fluid i took the cap off of the radiator, it was almost likethere was fizz? idk how to explain it no bubbles but like white fizz has anyone hear of this

 

[1SickAuto]

my friend had that happen to him and he had a headgasket problem, but im not saying thats your problem. when you drained it you should of "ATLEAST" had a gallon of coolant, theres should almost be 2 gallons if it full. Being that low on coolant your car most likely has been over heated, and that not good. you could of saved the cylinder head, but who knows. just drive and see if u notice anything, just dont take it on long trips.

 

[eclipertnr90]

well maybe it wouldve overheated but to be honest i really didnt drive it to see if it would overheat, and i lost my license until this monday, so i can really only drive it up my street,.. and for the coolant level, it filled up a 2liter bottle? and thats all? that doesnt seem good?

could this be why my exhaust was smoking

 

[1SickAuto]

i would say exhaust was smoking due to bad headgasket, but when u say the cap was loose was it spraying on the exhaust any. i had a problem simular when i had a mustang, one of my heater hoses was rubbing on some metal and eventually wore a hole in the tube and then coolant sprayed my exhaust and caused white smoke.

 

[eclipertnr90]

i can see that happeneing! but unforunetly the smoke was coming directly out of the exhaust

 

[MY1GDSM]

you might wanna Do a leak-down Test(If you can) and pull your radiator cap to see if you get any air bubbles in your coolant... also white smoke can be normal WHEN COLD you can have condensation burning off when you first start the car,BUT if it is doing it when the car is warmed up and it's not cold out you may have to pull the head to do a head gasket....

i had white smoke coming out of my old car cause my dumb@$$ put to small of a oil return line on and it was basically dumping oil in my exhaust blowing white smoke.

That does'nt make sense it would be blue smoke not white.....

 

[1SickAuto]

it was on my Mustang as well. i never knew about it for a while. a friend noticed it while driving behind me one day. i thought it was my headgasket as well cause i gave that car hell all the time. these are just things it could be as im not there to really help you identify the problem.

 

[eclipertnr90]

soooo i found out.. the kid said that the car was running 13psi.... it turned out to be running 22psi... and it is running rich.. so im pretty sure i found my problem!

 

[eclipertnr90]

soooo i found out.. the kid said that the car was running 13psi.... it turned out to be running 22psi... and it is running rich.. so im pretty sure i found my problem!

 

[DSM4me44]

soooo i found out.. the kid said that the car was running 13psi.... it turned out to be running 22psi... and it is running rich.. so im pretty sure i found my problem!

Your running rich with stock injectors and 22psi???WTF

 

[1SickAuto]

you might wanna Do a leak-down Test(If you can) and pull your radiator cap to see if you get any air bubbles in your coolant... also white smoke can be normal WHEN COLD you can have condensation burning off when you first start the car,BUT if it is doing it when the car is warmed up and it's not cold out you may have to pull the head to do a head gasket....



That does'nt make sense it would be blue smoke not white.....

i know it doesnt make sense and im not stupid. if you dont believe run a smaller return than your feed line and i garentee you will blow white smoke. i know white smoke means coolant, black ususally means rich, and blue means oils burning.

 

[Crackerjackman]

Hey guys how are you doing???? I have some major concerns going on. When I fire up the car in the morning I get the normal exhaust coming from the muffler. Then after about a 30 sec. to a min. I get a really bad white smoke screen. It gets even worse when I rev it when she is warm. I will rev it til I heard the BOV whistle. When it does that I cant see a puff of blue smoke. I know from working on Chevys that it is oil burning. I did a compression test and I have 165- 170 across the board. Yes I put a cap full of oil in the cylenders and checked compression while the engine was warmed up. I do not have oil in my coolant and vise versa. I did replace my turbo with a used one that Had a very minute amount of side to side shaft play. And when I was replacing the turbo and had the exhaust manifold off, There was oil a fair amount of oil in my exhaust runners. The only way I can describe the oil in the runners is like when you go to fill up your oil where the oil cap is and you spill just a tap on the valve cover. That is how it looked in the exhause runners. I am really stumped. It is driving me crazy cause the car can sit there and Idle at normal operating tempature with out overheating!!!! Could really bad Vavle seals cause the oil in the runners????

The car is a 91' Eclipse GSX. Stock 14B, FMIC, 2G MAF, stock exhaust( For now), Bigger injectors, Walbro 255 fuel pump, AFPR, AMBG.

All help is greatly appreciated cause Like I really said, I need this car up and going. Hopefully it will be an easy fix and not to much cash. I have a four monthold baby boy.....He is first priority.

Thanks,

Philip

 

[Crackerjackman]

will get pics up to you guys when my girl comes down to my place on Friday. Still need the diagnosis til then. Thank you

Philip

 

[MY1GDSM]

i know it doesnt make sense and im not stupid. if you dont believe run a smaller return than your feed line and i garentee you will blow white smoke. i know white smoke means coolant, black ususally means rich, and blue means oils burning.

I did NOT say your stupid... But I'll Don't think that I'm gonna waste my BB CHRA to test out what Will happen when you don't let the oil out of your turbo THAT IS Stuid...

 

[khartley]

If you are running 22psi on stock injectors, I highly doubt you are running rich, and if you were running rich, your exhaust would be black and your plugs would be fouling out... look under the fuel rail and see what color the injectors are, or if they have anything written on them. Did you pull the plugs and see what they look like?

I'm guessing to run 22psi, the kid before you just unplugged the wastegate... look around by the turbo where the wastegate is and see if there is nipple that a small vacuum hose would go on.. my guess is that is unplugged. If so, find a small vacuum hose in the same general area and plug it back on. This will bring your boost back down to around 8-10, what it should be at.

 

[Crackerjackman]

Update......Chopped off the cat today and fired her up and it is just blue smoke until you hit the gas and then it is a whiteish blue. there was also oil in the exhaust pipe running from the downtube.

Philip