ka24e white smoke (LOTS!!)

[AN89HATCH]

I just started driving my ka turbo, when it first starts its ok, but after driving for around 5 minutes A huge cloud of bluish white smoke pours out, and keeps pouring out to the point where it hovers off the ground lol. I know this is oil burning from the turbo, but why does it only do it when I am under 2200 rpm's? when Im over 2200 rpm the smoke is gone. Can this be because I am using a -4 an line with out a resistor? or does my turbo need to be rebuilt? Do you think If I use a restrictor this will get rid of the smoke?

[chandler]

sounds like piston rings to me

[574-240sx]

Could be alot of things. My friends rear seal on the turbo went to hell and that all we saw was blue smoke puffing. Definitely check compression first thing. I know blues are oil but the white maybe fuel. Nick

[skatanic28]

did you do any injector work? if one of them is leaking it could cause smoking like that. but i would think it would do it right from start-up though? what turbo are you using? ive read that the z31 t3's have weak seals....

[AN89HATCH]

im using a z31 t3 turbo, and I know its not the rings, because I can drive for around 5 minutes before the smoke even starts to come (start up), (the turbo is not hot enough yet to burn oil i guess?) Tomorrow I am going to buy a resistor and see how that works out I just do not get why it only happens below 2200 rpm, if im above 2200 the car drives normal, and 0 bluish white smoke

[Drift Machine]

blue smoke = oilblack smoke = fuelwhite smoke = coolant

So possibly the headgasket.

[AN89HATCH]

not the head gasket, nothing is in the oil. I know its the turbo, I pu the restrictor on today, and it stoped the smoking by more than half. But there is still alittle smoke now when stoping some times, a puff will go out then nothing. I know the turbo seals are bad, maby the problem can be im running crappy oil to break everything in. But i think the -4an line may be to big
Modified by AN89HATCH at 8:35 AM 9/19/2004