Smoke from turbo. Not good..

98gstaherns · 06-06-2006

Here is the set up.
1998 Mitsu Eclipse Gs-t
Mods:
UICP 1gbov
Mbc @14 psi
2.5 to 3 in downpipe (no Cat)
Apexi N1 cat back.
Here is the probelm.
The last couple of day my car has been shooting some grayish blueish smoke.
Talk to a good friend of mine and figure it is oil. Also I smelt gas in the smoke figureing it was running a little bit richer then it was before. Now I was trying to figure out where it might be burning oil? I got home today and smoke was pouring out form under the hood. Look under the hood and a lot of smoke was coming from under the heat sheild.
Called up a buddy to ask him what he thinks. Said it may be a oil line gasket that went and is leaking oil. But also when i put in my UICP with the 1G bov it started to make the fulltering noise when i let off the gas.
Now if i remember reading right thats means that the bov may not be opening at all of all the way and the air is running back into the turbo and making it stop all of a sudden. I'm Starting to wondering if my turbo has just had enough and gave up on me or what. I'm going to pull the sheild off tomorrow and see if i can see oil leaking or somthing. But in my garage there are no oil spots on the ground so I dunno. So if anyone is in the No st paul area and wants to help figure this out that would be great! Or if anyone has a 1G BOV thats i can buy or borrow to see if mine is bad.
Thanks
-Tyler

98gstaherns · 06-07-2006

Ok i pulled the intake off and the LICP and there was oil in the in take but none is the LICP. It is also making a werid noise when i shut the car off like the turbo is still spolling but it sounds like it is scraping on something.

slowbubblecar · 06-07-2006

see if the wheel is hittign the compressor housing. Are you losing a lot of oil and is the blue smoke coming out of the exhaust? It sounds like it might be the turbo. When my 60 trim went, it smoked really bad out the exhaust and the turbo smoked a lot as well. The oil was being lost rapidly also.

98gstaherns · 06-07-2006

There is no oil lose..Yet that is. I check it daily and it hasn;t moved.