[s-cars] ITS TO4E Smoking

[Cody Payne]

Brian and Gang,
	Smoking appears to be coming from the engine bay.  In particular
if you look at this picture where the center section and the hot-side
section mate:
http://www.worldsbeer.com/urs4/P1010029.JPG you can see the burnt oil.

Also found that on the oil return line that the flange that mates to the
center section was not totally flat thus leaking a bit:
http://www.worldsbeer.com/urs4/P1010023.JPG

I have removed the flange and filed flat...boy that was fun!

Questions:
-1) Is it ok to mount that flange back up using Ultra Grey RTV sealant?
The gasket that was there was removed and broke in half in the process.
Or should I "walk" to NAPA to find another gasket?  Combination of the
two?
-2) Where the Center Section to hot-side mate..is that a classic area
where the bearings would leak to the hot-side?


Any other thoughts besides "upgrading" to a GT30??

Cheers

Cody
 

-----Original Message-----
From: brian bilotti [mailto:vinnieb2 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:16 PM
To: Cody Payne
Subject: RE: [s-cars] ITS TO4E Smoking

Silly me. I forgot to ask, where is it smoking from?
Exhaust or engine bay just because oil got on the hotside? If exhaust
then it's seals/restrictor issues, if ebay then my bet it's what I've
alredy discussed.
;-)
--- Cody Payne <cpayne at bconnected.com> wrote:

> Brian,
> 	One more question..did your turbo smoke "everytime"?  Mine seems
to 
> do it about 40% of the time that I drive the car and seems to be more 
> at idle as far as I can tell.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cody
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian bilotti [mailto:vinnieb2 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 12:29 AM
> To: Cody Payne
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] ITS TO4E Smoking
> 
> Cody,
> I went through ALL of this SEVERAL times. First of all Ola ended up 
> restricting oil flow IN the turbo after I and several others were 
> having this problem. This was after I restricted the oil feed line to 
> a -3.
> Then it just kept happening. Then I thought I was getting bad ss 
> braided lines, replaced 3 of them. Boy was I pissed... Then after 
> talking with one of his guys the thought that it may have been coming 
> from the oil breather line popped up. HMMMM. Soooo, I disconnected.
> the line from the valve cover to the turbo. Plugged the inlet going to

> the turbo and routed the valve cover line to a vented clear bottle.
> Voila' There's the problem, not to say you're having the same but....
> It's simple enough to troubeshoot and eliminate the possibility. It 
> seemed that I was getting crankase pressurization and the oil was 
> going right into the turbo and seeping through the compressor housing 
> and onto the hotside resulting in a smoky engine bay and oil going 
> through my intake tract. I'd also be curious if you have oil in your 
> FMIC and intake tract. Check that first. Turbo to fmic hose, fmic to 
> throttle body,Oil there?, probably that's it.
> I'll be interested to hear what you find. 
> Keep me posted and I'll give you more info as things unfold ;-)) bb