Heavy smoke, please help

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mhrallyteam
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Heavy smoke, please help

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I left home this morning, first five minutes everything's fine. Then when the engine got hot HEAVY smoke came out of the pipe, oil smoke i would say, this was idling at a stop light.

Then i ran a while and it dissipated a bit, but at WOT a blue puff appears in the mirror.
It is the second time this happens, firts time i replaced the old turbo with a good TD04. I tought it was gone bad. The block is a wrx one with maybe 40thousand miles max, so i highly doubt it as blow by.

Any ideas guys, the temperature here is below freezing by the way, could my air filter be dirty/frozen enough to cause my engine to suck oil from the block, anybody else having trouble with their turbo in cold weather. Thx for any comments guys
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Post by dzx »

Usually it's the opposite, when my uncle starts one of his trucks it smokes until the engine heats up then it stops being visible. In his case, the oil rings are bad but the compression rings are good.
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Post by mhrallyteam »

Well... No smoke anymore, which is good but i still don't like it. How could a turbo leak a lot and then not leak at all.
92 l swapped to ej22T with 2.0T shortblock
4.111 manual 2.5RS tranny, sti eng mount, wrx I/C, MBC, WRX turboback exhaust, WRX front seats, STI rad cap, WRX specR1 struts, Eibach springs , leg turbo front brake, WRX rear brake.
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Post by dzx »

My legacy did that for a while, it smoked a pissload, then i was taking it up to my uncles house a couple days later to pull the engine and look at the rings and it just stopped all of a sudden. Never figured out what caused it.
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Post by NICO »

its the wheather if you live in canada it happens all the time, i get scared like that becuse if it dont stop, you blown a piston or turbo one of the two.

dont worry about it guys its mother nature fooling you guys, and turbo cars make a little more smoke then n/a cars, becuse the turbo.

thats a funny store, i all ways run to my dad and say there is smoke come out the exhuste like crazy!! i think the pistons just blew up, he says MA YOU CRAZY its A cold out'a side'a hahahahhaha
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Post by awdimprezal »

perhaps one of the oil rings stuck, then freed up, was this a fresh installed engine?
1996 impreza L AWD boosted n/a 2.2. 60 trim T04E turbo, well over 200k miles, 11 psi daily. No management.
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Post by dzx »

mine wasn't, I think the engine had been in the car for 120k miles. After that night I ended up having to replace the engine anyway, due to a friend's driving.
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Post by mhrallyteam »

The weather sure has something to do with it, but i wonder how can oil leak into the exhaust when the engine is not running. The turbo being higher than the oil level.
92 l swapped to ej22T with 2.0T shortblock
4.111 manual 2.5RS tranny, sti eng mount, wrx I/C, MBC, WRX turboback exhaust, WRX front seats, STI rad cap, WRX specR1 struts, Eibach springs , leg turbo front brake, WRX rear brake.
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Post by dzx »

You don't have a small crack in the block do you?
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Post by mhrallyteam »

I sure hope not! :wink: We had a couple of cold days since and no sign of smoke yet. So, im happy
92 l swapped to ej22T with 2.0T shortblock
4.111 manual 2.5RS tranny, sti eng mount, wrx I/C, MBC, WRX turboback exhaust, WRX front seats, STI rad cap, WRX specR1 struts, Eibach springs , leg turbo front brake, WRX rear brake.
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