Hey guys,
On Friday, I installed a new turbo. The Evo III big 16G and we also put 650cc injectors and a fuel pump. We dynoed the car at 260hp to the wheels running about 20psi. So I left the shop and we're heading back home (about a 3hr drive). About an hour into it I hear a small burst in the hood and then white smoke everywhere! We pull over and look under the hood and there is oil everywhere on the engine. The next morning, we find that the oil line to the new turbo had burst. So we fixed it and still the car is blowing white smoke out the exhaust and idling really horribly. Something must of happened to the turbo when the oil line burst. The car sounds like a steam train accelerating - like its spitting out air or something. I have no clue whats going on? Is this the company fault who installed the new parts? Let me know what you'll think.

 

Is it a braided stainless steel line? Did it just come off? It depends how it "came off" or if it broke before you can blame the company that put it on... You should take it back off and clean everything up... Dont run it with oil all over the motor/exhaust manifold... Once you get everything cleaned up, and make sure that line is on secureley so its not still leaking oil out of it... Your white smoke is prolly just oil burning in the engine bay... Is it coming out of the tail pipe also? Were you getting on it when it happened, or just cruising?

 

Yeah I was getting on it. It was prob at 7000rpm. There is smoke coming from the engine bay which is the oil burning away but most of it is coming from the exhaust. The oil line was completely detached when it broke and thats what prob put all the oil over the engine. I was thinking that something happened to the turbo and oil is now getting into the exhaust and is burning there. The engine is idling really badly also. It was a normal line. What do you'll think?

 

If you blew the oil line off the turbo at 7000 rpms you could of hurt the insides of your turbo. You said you have white smoke coming out the exhaust. Are you positive its white because when my stock turbo went there was no white smoke. It was blueish. White smoke sounds like your burning antifreeze. When head gaskets go they burn off really white smoke.

If you had the shop that did the dyno work install the turbo and oil line then hell yea its their fault. Im sure they will try to get around it by saying it had higher boots yadda yadda yadda. Why didnt you go with a SS oil line?

 

I didn't even know I should of upgraded to an SS oil line. Could it be that something happened to the turbo and now oil is leaking into the exhaust from the turbo and burning inside? I pulled over as soon as I heard the burst inside the hood. What do you think?

 

well first i would check to make sure that its not a head gasket. Look under the oil cap for white goop. I doubt it is, but just to be sure. If thats fine then it must be something else.

To me it almost sounds like your running rich. I would check to make sure you didnt pop off a coupling on the intercooler pipes or intake, or at the intercooler. Cuz thats what it sounds to me. I know it would be weird to happen at the same time though.

Alsotake off your intake and see if you have any oil build up in there. Other than the running rich the only thing i can think could have happened is you blew a turbo seal because it ran without oil, especially when your getting on it the turbo is extremely hot.

 

what is the car being tuned with?

 

a few things here.
did you immediatly dyno this after instaling it?
did you break in the turbo first?
you dind't mention anything about tuning. . . did you tune this car before driving 3hrs after installing a brand new turbo? with only 260 being laid down i'm going to assume NO, which was not to smart to drive that far on an untuned car. sorry but running up to 7k on an untuned, un broken in turbo was not smart at all. not trying to be a dick here but you somewhat deserve it if all of what i have just ASSUMED is correct (this is only an assumption, don't get pissed if this is not correct).
now, the white smoke is probably just oil burning of fthe manifold and everything like the others said.
if your car is idling badly and smoking white... it sounds like a head gastket. get a compression test on it.

 

Im gonna go out an a limb and say head gasket... Yes, I know its been said... Im just... post whoring.

 

Thanks ppl,
The car was tuned on the dyno as soon as the turbo was installed. They had a full set up and they tuned fuel and boost pressure etc etc. Everything worked fine and the numbers were not as high as I would of liked but that was fine. I have a SAFCII fuel management. I'm thinking more and more that it was a head gasket that blew. I'm still confused at the oil feed line. At this point I'm doubting if it was an oil feed line. Its the line under the evo III 16G turbo. I consists of a long steal pipe then it goes into a short rubber rubber line that connects with the engine. Its the rubber piece that burst when running high rpm. Could the head gasket of caused this?