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Hey guys, I thought I should update this topic because as it states, things have gone a lil more poorly. the original text is down the bottem of this.

to sum up the past few days, I started noticing a small amount of white smoke cumming from my exhaust, only very breifly when I stopped at the lights, now after the last events that have taken place, there is alot more unfortunetly.

I was recommended to take off the intake pipe to the turbo and check for oil, well I did that today, I unbolted the lowest part and most common place I would have thought to find oil... down in the bottem right hand corner where the fmic meets the lowest part of the intake pipe(pics up soon).

I found a small amount, just a lil residue and small patches, cleaned it up, put it all back together, made sure everything was good and tight, but not tooo over tight.

drove my car around for a couple of hours, all of a sudden bang, one of my intercooler pipes pops off, I am on the side of the road, fixed it up extrA tight. drove off. drove 30 mins home on freeway, taking it easy.

came to the start of my 2km street, wanted to see if the pipes would hold, revved to bout 5000 and the pipes pop off again in a different spot,pushed it home, fixed and tightened it all up... turned it on, found there is now alot more smoke cuming out the rear and I think there is some blue smoke...

so I am hoping so far this all sounds like the turbo is my prob? not my engine? if so, do i need to do the seals? is that costly on a stock turbo? is it better to replace as oppose to fix...

please help! wots the extra smoke and bit of a bluee tinge mean?

thanks,

Adam

P.S I did try looking around the forums, couldn't find too much.

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PREVIOUSLY....

"Gday guys,

I turboed my car about 9 months ago, car has never missed a beat before or after the conversion and is now running about 200awkw (r33 gts4).

She still is running perfect, but this week I have started to notice that on occasion (maybe every 5th set of lights) that there is a small amount of white smoke coming from the exhaust when I stop at the lights, it only lasts for about 2 seconds and then disapears, but it smells and is enough for me to notice. (I don't fang it before I stop at the lights either, just normal 3,000 - 3,500rpm changes).

I changed the oil and filter about 4,000 kms ago and is coming up for another one, but the oil has gone from perfect down to low. I hope it is just the turbo, because it is just a stock one. The other thing to note is that I have recently gutted the cat a couple of weeks ago to get a bit more flow until I recieve my highflow soon.

please help! Any ideas/suggestions are much appreciated. I have looked around the forums but couldn't find anything too similar.

Regards,

Adam"

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hey guys,

I gave it a good rev before in my garage so I could see if anything was coming out, didn't appear so.

I don't know what I do differently when I drive it to make it occasionally smoke.

I have a feeling it may be the turbo, I hope it is... but is there anything else it could be?

Why have I lost so much oil???

Thanks

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Thanks for the advice guys,

I will open it up and have a look tonight.

1 thing though, I thought that if there was to be any oil in that pipe, that my car would be constantly coughing out alot of smoke? not just the odd one or two puffs per drive...

also thought I should mention it has been absolutely fine over the past 12-24 hrs during driving... so could this be an intermitant problem do to a loss of oil? which I am yet to discover why I am loosing oil in the first place...?

Thanks,

Adam

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