Pretty big puff of oil smoke at cold start-up

[Ingo D. Rautenberg]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Rose" <pjrose at frontiernet.net>
To: <Tresturbos at aol.com>
Cc: <TDaily at genlyte.com>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Pretty big puff of oil smoke at cold start-up


> At 1:52 PM -0500 2/13/02, Tresturbos at aol.com wrote:
> >I only get it if I forget to let the car cool down after a hard drive.
> >Usually keeping the revs down over the final mile or 2 is enough.  If
it's
> >been a real hard run, I idle for a minute or 2 bedfore pulling into the
> >garage.  Don't know the cause though.
>
> get _what_? Surely the puff of oil at start-up doesn't depend on your
> shutdown procedure, does it?
>
Just what I was thinking, Phil.

Mitch, when you shut the engine off too soon after a hard run, you're coking
the turbo shaft.  Even though the K24's are watercooled, there is an awful
lot of heat build-up in that confined space.  I highly recommend NOT turning
the car off in such a situation without letting it cool down a minute or two
first (unless you're thinking of replacing that turbo sooner rather than
later).

Ingo