What's Gone Wrong Now?

[Truffles]

In recent months my R32 GT-R has barely been run. I had a fuel pump die and took me about 3 months to replace it. I'd drained the fuel and kept it topped up and started a few times a week to idle whilst I needed to fix other things.

Today I started it and drove it down in front of the house (it ran fine) then I put fuel in it and went to start it. When I did, it barely struggled to idle and then smoke started radiating from the hot side around the turbos and dump pipes. I shut the car off straight away.

What am I looking at here? Turbos? Something more sinister?

Edited March 24, 2014 by Truffles

[Blackkers]

unlikely something terribly sinister. I get your frustration though. keep driving for a while maybe the smoke will clear; possible carbon buildup? while its running can you see smoke escaping from anywhere? did you leave a tool on top of the motor?

[Truffles]

As soon as I fired it up after adding fresh fuel, the motor idles at about 400-500rpm and a dark smoke radiates from the area the turbochargers are located. The longer it ran, the more smoke rose out of the engine bay. The engine did rev freely whilst the throttle was open but returned to a rough idle. As soon as I realised the possible seriousness of the situation, I cut the engine.

The rough idle could be a vacuum line, intercooler pipe or anything. What I'm most concerned about is the smoke, also the fact that nothing changed from it running perfectly 20 minutes earlier other than 15L of fresh fuel again.

Cheers.

Edited March 24, 2014 by Truffles

[Badgaz]

did you use an crc product or wd40 or silicon's or anything around the intake/exhaust manifold...this can take a while to burn off and create's smoke at the same time....the fact its not idling properly is a bit of a worry...check your intake piping for improper connections and or splits in piping etc.