RS's smoking on track?
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I've noticed on you tube, track days and the like that Cossies and RS Turbos all seems to smoke to varying degrees when driven hard, it always seems to clear, and comes and goes.
No one seems to bat an eyelid and all of them can't be knackered.
Its always a blue/grey smoke, so is it a mix of fuel and oil surge?
Is it just what they do?
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Stu
No one seems to bat an eyelid and all of them can't be knackered.
Its always a blue/grey smoke, so is it a mix of fuel and oil surge?
Is it just what they do?
Cheers,
Stu
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if a cossie doesn't puff a little every now and again then worry! a fair bit is likely to be unburnt fuel on over run but a little oil smoke's nothing out of the ordinary on any engine used hard, especially one designed in the 70/80's!
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Gets me this,90% of Cosworth owners on here say as there car does NOT smoke !.
Mine used to do it on over un/run down whatever you want to call it.Half a litre of oil every 500 miles.Not to get in the argument of rings,v guides breather etc it got driven hard.
Ridgey your picture is like Baskys one,nice big flame
Its gotta go some where when you come to a corner after a foot too the floor.
Most of the vids on the internet show them doing a few puffs
gaytube maybe ??
Mine used to do it on over un/run down whatever you want to call it.Half a litre of oil every 500 miles.Not to get in the argument of rings,v guides breather etc it got driven hard.
Ridgey your picture is like Baskys one,nice big flame
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Most of the vids on the internet show them doing a few puffs
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Even the handbook states 1 litre every 700 miles from new, yet all those for sale never use oil or smoke. They won't if you never take it out
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Mine didn't when I first got it ... But as I up'd the power and drive it mega hard it started ... No big deal its what they do...mine getting a rebuild with new block etc so we will see .
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No if it is stage 3 and not even doing 3/4 of litre in 1k then then fastest car you need is a 305 Peugeot deisel and you need to retire from cossie ownership.
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The yb breathes heavy compared to most engines matt so if you get them hot like you would on a track ( unlike botters
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my saph used to heavily smoke on an off the throttle an used oil at almost the same rate as fuel i sold it to my brother cheap needing a rebuild to keep my mk2 escort he changed the oil for the correct grade an it almost stopped smoking apart from the usual cossie puff
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my saph used to heavily smoke on an off the throttle an used oil at almost the same rate as fuel i sold it to my brother cheap needing a rebuild to keep my mk2 escort he changed the oil for the correct grade an it almost stopped smoking apart from the usual cossie puff
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i know this is an old thread but
when i took the head of mine i leveled the pissingtons and filled with a cheap thin oil and left whilst head had a build(new guide stem seals etc)and it lost hardley any oil down past the rings(well not enough to think of changing rings)prob about 2-3mm all equal though.and when back together it still smoked on track a little but flamed better,its the way they are tbh,think it say in handbook they burn oil from new,a good set up will see any excessive oil in the lambda readings and over breathing issue,s![Top](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/smile011.gif)
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when i took the head of mine i leveled the pissingtons and filled with a cheap thin oil and left whilst head had a build(new guide stem seals etc)and it lost hardley any oil down past the rings(well not enough to think of changing rings)prob about 2-3mm all equal though.and when back together it still smoked on track a little but flamed better,its the way they are tbh,think it say in handbook they burn oil from new,a good set up will see any excessive oil in the lambda readings and over breathing issue,s
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still miss my old saph now
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