I have tried searching and i know that things like this have been covered but i cannot seem to find what im looking for, i believe my case is different.
I just rebuilt my motor, new pistons, rings, mhg, arp harware, resealed turbo etc less that 2000miles ago. I broke in my engine and have been driving it for a few weeks/month now. i started having a smoking problem and loosing oil problem. I thought i had a fitting loose so i checked all of them and found that my charge pipe had a crack and seemed to be in the right position for the oil to be coming from it. The turbo inlet also had a drop of oil sitting on it. I assumed this was from the PCV system maybe sucking too much oil out or something. Later, i drove to a friends house and when i took off the lower charge pipe it was like i was doing an oil change(at this point i had been driving the car for about 2 weeks). After that i decided to try a catch can which seemed to help the problem but my pipes still had oil inside them. I did not reroute the catch can back to the intake so there should be no oil in there but there was. I was/am still getting blueish smoke on decel(in gear) and now a little bit at idle and when i first take off from a light or something. So i checked my turbo and since it was not resealed by a professional and seemed to have a little play, along with the oil problem i assumed the seal was bad(my turbo was/is bad). Now, i have got a new turbo which i purchased from a user here that was said to have been rebuilt less that 1500miles ago by a professional shop. I am not mentioning his name because i have not discussed this with him yet, therefore he has had no chance to solve/determine whether there is a problem. My problem is that now, after buying a "new" turbo my car continues to smoke. The new turbo does not have the "drop" of oil on the inlet like my old one did and it is hard to tell whether the oil in the charge pipes is from this new turbo or just residual from the old one. I have a hard time believing that this new turbo is bad after talking in depth with the seller who was very helpful in all other aspects. I also have a hard time believing it is "worn" rings since they are brand new and i would think that if there was excessive blow by it would cause more oil in my catch can(which it hasnt). This leads me to think that maybe there is a problem with the PCV system. Perhaps i am building up too much pressure allowing oil into the combustion chamber. I also noticed that my dipstick was popped out of the holder today(about 3/16)i am not sure whether i forgot to put it all the way back in when checking the level or whether pressure build up caused it to come out. I know the first responses will probably be "compression test" or "leakdown test" but i do not know how to do the leakdown test and havent done a compression test yet. I am pushing low boost(5-6lbs) because of the boost leak i have. Hopefully i have provided enough information to get help but if not ask me whatever and i will try to give you more information. This is all i can think of right now though. Oh yeh, i dont think its realted but i guess maybe its possible that it is. My car runs really rich, which i assume is from the boost leak. By rich i mean afrs in the high 10s, low 11s at cruise and low to mid 9s under boost. I have an afpr, lex afm, 660cc injectors and safc. I tuned when i first got the car running but havnt tried to retune because i know i have a leak and i dont want to have to re tune again when i get a new intercooler(hopefully a week or two) Thanks in advance
Also, i did not proof read so please ignore all the mispellings and grammar errors that you can stand.
Matt.
I just rebuilt my motor, new pistons, rings, mhg, arp harware, resealed turbo etc less that 2000miles ago. I broke in my engine and have been driving it for a few weeks/month now. i started having a smoking problem and loosing oil problem. I thought i had a fitting loose so i checked all of them and found that my charge pipe had a crack and seemed to be in the right position for the oil to be coming from it. The turbo inlet also had a drop of oil sitting on it. I assumed this was from the PCV system maybe sucking too much oil out or something. Later, i drove to a friends house and when i took off the lower charge pipe it was like i was doing an oil change(at this point i had been driving the car for about 2 weeks). After that i decided to try a catch can which seemed to help the problem but my pipes still had oil inside them. I did not reroute the catch can back to the intake so there should be no oil in there but there was. I was/am still getting blueish smoke on decel(in gear) and now a little bit at idle and when i first take off from a light or something. So i checked my turbo and since it was not resealed by a professional and seemed to have a little play, along with the oil problem i assumed the seal was bad(my turbo was/is bad). Now, i have got a new turbo which i purchased from a user here that was said to have been rebuilt less that 1500miles ago by a professional shop. I am not mentioning his name because i have not discussed this with him yet, therefore he has had no chance to solve/determine whether there is a problem. My problem is that now, after buying a "new" turbo my car continues to smoke. The new turbo does not have the "drop" of oil on the inlet like my old one did and it is hard to tell whether the oil in the charge pipes is from this new turbo or just residual from the old one. I have a hard time believing that this new turbo is bad after talking in depth with the seller who was very helpful in all other aspects. I also have a hard time believing it is "worn" rings since they are brand new and i would think that if there was excessive blow by it would cause more oil in my catch can(which it hasnt). This leads me to think that maybe there is a problem with the PCV system. Perhaps i am building up too much pressure allowing oil into the combustion chamber. I also noticed that my dipstick was popped out of the holder today(about 3/16)i am not sure whether i forgot to put it all the way back in when checking the level or whether pressure build up caused it to come out. I know the first responses will probably be "compression test" or "leakdown test" but i do not know how to do the leakdown test and havent done a compression test yet. I am pushing low boost(5-6lbs) because of the boost leak i have. Hopefully i have provided enough information to get help but if not ask me whatever and i will try to give you more information. This is all i can think of right now though. Oh yeh, i dont think its realted but i guess maybe its possible that it is. My car runs really rich, which i assume is from the boost leak. By rich i mean afrs in the high 10s, low 11s at cruise and low to mid 9s under boost. I have an afpr, lex afm, 660cc injectors and safc. I tuned when i first got the car running but havnt tried to retune because i know i have a leak and i dont want to have to re tune again when i get a new intercooler(hopefully a week or two) Thanks in advance
Also, i did not proof read so please ignore all the mispellings and grammar errors that you can stand.
Matt.
