RabReith89

Well just my luck after giving it a service oil motorsport 1 15w 50 ,oil filter, sump kit, spark plugs.

Was just two feet from my house after giving it a run for a hour or so, booted her up then pop revs drop smoke pissin out the exhaust and out the bonnet,

Opened the bonnet to see that the seal on the turbo was smokein two??
Drove it down the street tryed bootin it no turbo kickin in so looks like a need a new turbo, How much will a new one cost??

stembo21

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are you sure its the turbo?

RabReith89

Pretty sure cant think wot else it could be??

stembo21

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chould be rings

RabReith89

Yea but when aye mean smoke aye mean a lot ov white smoke and it stinks and av lost a lot ov power errrr....

Would a normal garage be able to tell me whats wrong and is it a job you can do your self whit the right parts??

Chopshop85

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As above it could be rings. Might as well do a compression test to eliminate that!

However, if its the turbo I just got mine re coned at TurboDevelopments in middlesex!
they did a quality job and only charged me Ł175 for new bearings and seals! as apposed to a more popular turbo supplier who wanted Ł450

Also Ive always been told to use 10/40 semi synthetic oil, not 15/50

rstel1

ive always been told 10-40, aswell but a few guys on here and some engine tunners have said 15-50

dont know what to do now

RS 5tu

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Its not the end of the world, you can get a used turbo for abt Ł50-100.
And if its the engine then there you can build a zvh for a few Ł100.

Tbh any one who buys a RS Turbo and expects to do nothing with it are mad these are 20year old and probably every owner had nailed it around.

The Youth.

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is it ticking over ok? if not just check to make sure you haven't split a boost hose..

steve

Marts

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This is the same car that had the dump valve blocked off innit? The one that everyone suspected that the rings had gone on it.....

I think their first theory was correct mate. Try and get it to a local garage, or if it won't move, get the yellow pages out for a mobile mech to take a look. They'll run the compression test for pennies and should diagnose the issue pretty promptly. Take it from there innit.

As stated, these engines are quick, fun, a pain in the aRSe, but one thing they aint - and thats Invincible!

RabReith89

Its idlein a bit lumpy like??

RabReith89

Yea sure is mate, Am gonna get it in the garage so they can say wots wot.

Think after all this experiance am just gonna get the engine rebuilt

orion turbo

it should still boost with the oil seals gone

The Youth.

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if it is idling lumpy as you say check all the boost hoses for splits, still doesn't account for the smoke from the zorst tho

steve

RabReith89

Good news gettin her seen to the morn to see wots wrong from ma local garage.

Once fixed gonna renew most ov the engine parts gaskets, leads, hoses, sump, rockor cover, ect

Fingers crossed its not ŁŁŁŁŁŁs lol

kidsRS

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Just get it to a garage you aint got a clue really av ya.

chunky3

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could be headgasket

Alps Pacino

Mine did this i had melted no 2 and 3 piston, dont you just love beantins lol

brizie

rs's are not the best car to buy if your not mechanically minded

as most are never standard and have bin fucked around with by every other wannabe spanner monkey under the sun.

I would take it back to si personally and see what he can do

RabReith89

Got it goin in the garage the morn mate to see whats what.

Dan16v

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How constructive of you.

As said above i'd be checking boost hoses, make sure all pipes are attached at inlet too.

RSTurboSI

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give the guy a brake, let him learn..

If you want advice then you ask, thats what hes doing and we are helping him, thats what PF is about, start to lean Kid..

Now back to topic.

I would say on a good note that the pistion rings are fucked mate, Lets hope this hasnt scored the bore to much otherwise its ganna be a hard job for someone to smoth them back out again, its an easy and simple job to change the pistions, ebay or someone on here may have a spair set of clean pistions with no problems..


jack up to a point where u can have room under the car and beable to move around enuff, wack it on axle stands and empty the oil, Remove the sump and see if you can see up the bores of the pistions, if you cant see any damage then its ganna be the top half which means removing the head balts, its easy enuff to remove the head, also you are best to remove the turbo from the mainfold, as they are quite havey when conected to the head.

once remove the turbo you can check for any place in the turbo and also have a better look to see if you can save yourself some pennies and make sure no cracks or any of the fans are cracked inside the turbo hole.

then once removed the head you will need to remove the conrods from the crank which are balts, remove the pistions from the top half of the engine bay as the crank will be in the way, lets hope that the crank aint damaged otherwise its engine out.. maybe you could swing getting the crank out with the engine still in,

i tell you what tho, its an easy job to remove the RST engine, just removing the MFI fuel unit and Drive shafts that are a bit of a pain, otherwise its a 1hur half job. long as ur carefull when lifting the gearbox with it, as i did it myself.

rad cooler off


Mainfold off


Gone


Then refit



and thats with my LSD connected before i put it in.

155lee

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buying second hand turbos is like buying second hand socks,especially for an rst,almost gauranteed to be changing it again soon,not everybody is born a ford technician so its just aswell rst's are easy to work on and there are forums like this to ask questions on.is the car hard to start as thats a sign of knackered rings,i would expect blue smoke from the rings and white if the headgasket is gone.are the coolant hoses getting hard when the engine is running?is it using water.take off the bottom intercooler hose and if a bit of oil comes out its the turbo,expect residue,but a tablespoon upwards would indicate a gubbed turbo.if thats the case get it rebuilt or shell out around Ł500 up for a new 1.if a rebuild is needed take the engine out as it might need a rebore,do this before dismantling it as this will keep the engine internally clean and all the bolts in 1 area.

Rs Baz

hi mate have you had any luck with your engine if its knackerd im willing to sell you my spare one that was in full running and perfect order 100% no rattle or smoke great engine i will let it go for Ł275 but with out turbo as its knackerd white smoke from that. it was only taken out of my other s2 last month

it had new cam and tappet set

im in newtown powys can bring to you

ebay user name is rsbaz1 to show how genuine i am

Aaroncast

''could''<<< be rings-------10/10 for getting 'rings' right!!

RabReith89

Thanks guys for all the advice learin more as a go along just new to turbo cars that all lol, Lucky its a fordie tho.

She's in the garage this afternoon so fingers crossed she's not to bad.