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I was just driving home from dropping a mate off from tafe today, and decided to up it a little, noticed it had what seemed to be like a missfire but when i straight away looked in my rear vision mirror it revealed clouds of smoke coming from my exhaust system. So i quickly changed gears and cruized and the smoke went away and the car ran fine, as soon as i try and use the turbo even slightly then the smoke cloud begins again. The turbo hadnt made any weird noises that i could hear so it was a little unexpected. Well that sorta was an expensive trip home from tafe. Oh well more of an excuse go bigger Anyone selling money trees>????????

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Hey man, my car did the same thing, but to my suprise I had burnt off 4 of the 6 electrodes off the spark plugs.... And with this hot weather - it might be that. just check it out... saves you going for a new turbo if that is the problem :D

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Its hard to work out, the oil smoke has now dissapeared. It is getting alot of oil inside the intake pipe that runs into the throttle body. I separated the engine breather and ran the hose into a bottle to see if the oil is coming from blowby. So far after getting abit of a thrash its all good there isnt even a mist in there. It does sort of stutter a little once boost is really being asked for but maybe thats coz its sucking the oil in that is lying in the intake runners, not allowing the spark plugs to control combustion efficiently hence causing a misfire feel

I have a similar problem happening at the moment. My turbo was fine when i pulled it off. Ive tried everything to, replacing plugs, turbo, compression test, ECU restiing etc but problem still exhisting. Going to check my AFM tom, let me know how you go and what youve done!

Good luck, hope its nothin serious

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