Burning oil

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blubottlemax
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I just got my car running with a used S13 T25. I'm using a JGS tools oil line kit with a .060 restrictor on it. The car is billowing white smoke out of the exhaust. The turbo has not been run in at least a few months. It had no shaft play on the exhaust side, but it did have some play on the compressor side. I'm going to pull the intake pipe as soon as it cools off some. Is this normal when first starting up, something I can expect to go away, or is this the sign of a blown turbo?


Structure240sx
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do u have the coolant lines hooked up on it? oil burns blue, coolant/water burns white,

blubottlemax
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No, I don't have the coolant lines hooked up on it. Its a bluish grey color, same color as my last motor with the severly worn rings. I just got done running it for a while, got the idle to hold steady, I had to run 1in 6 out for my Z32maf, although its running really rich and not responding to SAFC inputs now, when my upper radiator hose blew off! Damn, I'm about ready to scrap this whole project...
Modified by blubottlemax at 2:18 PM 3/28/2005

blubottlemax
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Joined: Thu Dec 05, 2002 5:46 am
Car: Cars, aviation, snowboarding

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I took it for a drive around the block. Its bogging and backfiring quite a bit, not what I would consider driveable. With the T25, boost starts coming on at 2k RPM. I'm running into a wall on what to do next....


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