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Strange engine problems
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I have been building a car for trackdays and fun on the road, powered it with Megasquirt.
I needed a CPS in the bottomend so took a bottom end that had this already drilled but without turbo oil retour. Now i have the engine running and it smokes a lot (white) and the turbo is pushing out black oil looking stuff.
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I am going to replace the turbo as i took it of a shelf without having any idea of its condition. I am thinking of a cracked housing or broken seals.
Anybody seen this before? Am i right thinking this will be a turbo issue or might it come from the engine (its new build)
I have been building a car for trackdays and fun on the road, powered it with Megasquirt.
I needed a CPS in the bottomend so took a bottom end that had this already drilled but without turbo oil retour. Now i have the engine running and it smokes a lot (white) and the turbo is pushing out black oil looking stuff.
See this video
I am going to replace the turbo as i took it of a shelf without having any idea of its condition. I am thinking of a cracked housing or broken seals.
Anybody seen this before? Am i right thinking this will be a turbo issue or might it come from the engine (its new build)
Last edited by Red_bull; 30-08-2014 at 07:22 PM.
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Yes it has the right pistons and i have a oil return in the sump. Its above oil level. Return flows well as i took it of and started the engine for 15 sec. Let the return leak into a bucket. So return isn't blocked
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Tomorrow i will get another turbo and bolt it on! Hope everything will be solved! I also can't take the elbow off everything is rusted away to take good care of it
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yeah but even the bolts are just round. everything is rotten. I am not gonna try to repair this, just replace with something else and see again haha
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So i fitted a new turbo in the meanwhile and the engine still does the same. Today i am gonna check if i can find the problem. I really think it is burning coolant. The smoke comming out of it is quite a lot.
As i am running on megasquirt i am wondering if i might have set something wrong, but overfuelling won't look this white i guess.
Gonna go to the car today to try to figure out what is wrong. Anybody suggestions?
As i am running on megasquirt i am wondering if i might have set something wrong, but overfuelling won't look this white i guess.
Gonna go to the car today to try to figure out what is wrong. Anybody suggestions?
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No i haven't driven it as the car has no MOT and its running on megasquirt so that need to be calibrated. In this state starting to calibrate it is useless
i did a compression test and on all cylinders it has around 150 psi / 10 bars
what i was thinking was taking the water off the turbo, but i am pretty sure that is not gonna solve the issue as the black liquide is coming out of the exhaust to turbo flange.
Anybody an idea what to do before taking the head off?
i did a compression test and on all cylinders it has around 150 psi / 10 bars
what i was thinking was taking the water off the turbo, but i am pretty sure that is not gonna solve the issue as the black liquide is coming out of the exhaust to turbo flange.
Anybody an idea what to do before taking the head off?
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So you also suggest to take off the cylinder head Karlos isn't it?
@nigelB could you see the cracks when you took off the rockercover or only when you took the head off?
@nigelB could you see the cracks when you took off the rockercover or only when you took the head off?
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Have you been able to see it by the naked eye or needed to have it pressure checked by the engine builder?
I can't see anything in the manifold and not on the head itself. Thinking of having it pressure checked at the engine builder now
I can't see anything in the manifold and not on the head itself. Thinking of having it pressure checked at the engine builder now
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Ok the problem just didn't really get better. I took the head of and took it to a engine builder. They pressure checked it and the cylinderhead has nothing wrong. Fitted everything again. New headbolts, new headgastket, new gaskets all around and still smoked. Let it run warm and smoke slowly went away. Also this was on new fuel, earlier it just had 5 liters in and now i added another 20 liter. After a while i only got some slight blue smoke and pretty sure this is turbo related. Today i fired it up again to check hot oil pressure and again it started to smoke badly. Again the white smoke and even after having the engine heated up it still did.
Too bad i am also not satisfied about the oil pressure. Cold start up it came till 4 bar and then i guess the spring lets oil through in the oilpump. Hot oil pressure on idle was about 0.8-0.9 bar and when i rev it, it just doesn't seems to be exceeding 2 bar.
I thought i had a brand new oil pump on it, but now that i saw this i am in doubt.
Anybody ideas about the smoke? What pressure should a standard oil pump oush the spring for the overpressure circuit?
Going to try to get the oil pressure fixed and then go for MOT on tuesday. Hopefully running it warm on the streets will help to cure the smoking issue. Exhaust is full of shit, maybe intercooler too. It needs to burn it through maybe
Too bad i am also not satisfied about the oil pressure. Cold start up it came till 4 bar and then i guess the spring lets oil through in the oilpump. Hot oil pressure on idle was about 0.8-0.9 bar and when i rev it, it just doesn't seems to be exceeding 2 bar.
I thought i had a brand new oil pump on it, but now that i saw this i am in doubt.
Anybody ideas about the smoke? What pressure should a standard oil pump oush the spring for the overpressure circuit?
Going to try to get the oil pressure fixed and then go for MOT on tuesday. Hopefully running it warm on the streets will help to cure the smoking issue. Exhaust is full of shit, maybe intercooler too. It needs to burn it through maybe
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you did say you had fitted a new turbo, ,
I guess you can get your cooling system pressure tested
then check for water in the bores
min oil pressure at 80,c 176,f at 750rpm 1.0 bar
at 2000 rpm 2.8 bar
relief valve opens at 4.0 bar, according to my haynes
your replacement turbo might also be worn
I guess you can get your cooling system pressure tested
then check for water in the bores
min oil pressure at 80,c 176,f at 750rpm 1.0 bar
at 2000 rpm 2.8 bar
relief valve opens at 4.0 bar, according to my haynes
your replacement turbo might also be worn
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you did say you had fitted a new turbo, , I guess you can get your cooling system pressure tested then check for water in the bores min oil pressure at 80,c 176,f at 750rpm 1.0 bar at 2000 rpm 2.8 bar relief valve opens at 4.0 bar, according to my haynes your replacement turbo might also be worn
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you pressure test the water cooling system same way your head was tested,
you get someone qualified to do it, obviously they need the car to be with them
remove spark plugs and if you get a drop in pressure,
the water may be getting into the bores,
how to tell if there is water in the bores after a pressure test,
poke something in the holes where the spark plugs go
the symptoms are not a cracked head, you tried 2 turbo`s and have identical results
both turbo`s could be shot, but without a pressure test,
its still guessing at many things,
you could also try cranking over with no turbo fitted and push a sheet of cardboard over the manifold studs and bolt up to catch any oil or water particles
and examine after,
you get someone qualified to do it, obviously they need the car to be with them
remove spark plugs and if you get a drop in pressure,
the water may be getting into the bores,
how to tell if there is water in the bores after a pressure test,
poke something in the holes where the spark plugs go
the symptoms are not a cracked head, you tried 2 turbo`s and have identical results
both turbo`s could be shot, but without a pressure test,
its still guessing at many things,
you could also try cranking over with no turbo fitted and push a sheet of cardboard over the manifold studs and bolt up to catch any oil or water particles
and examine after,
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Starting with injectors not connected, ignition off and inlet open so turbo isn't joining!
Why is there smoke comming out of all 4 cylinders??
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I dunno mate. Car only runs short all the time. Insurence got fixed today so maybe tomorrow i can run it warm on the road to see what happens. However today its filled as i did leak checks on the coolant system, so first all air needs to get out
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Another thing what i realised today is that this problem isn't there since the start. It has ran wel a few times short before this smoking started
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Problem seems to be solved. Took it for a spin and kept smoking. Decided to take it all into bits to see what is all fooked. Started with intercooler and a hell lot of oil came out. Bit thinner then i expect it to be so maybe with coolant. As i still had an exhaust full of oil and shit i decided to go a different road. Clearly there has been a big turbo failure else IC would be clean. Gave sb a call to borrow a exhaust manifold of a std 1.6 and exhaust. Build it all up again and ran with good oil pressure and no smoke 1dd13 probably first turbo filled IC and second (which wasn't the most beautiful one) gave oil pressure issues. Seems to be i had two bitchy turbo's. So one is being rebuild now and then i am probably fine with this car again.
Also today i heard sb that also has seen white smoke from a ic filled with oil. This case was on a truck. Maybe due to it being mixed very fine with air color changes?
Thanks all for sharing thoughts and helping me forward!
Also today i heard sb that also has seen white smoke from a ic filled with oil. This case was on a truck. Maybe due to it being mixed very fine with air color changes?
Thanks all for sharing thoughts and helping me forward!
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