smoke

[jimjam187]

new turbo motor build, i have some white smoke thats comes out sometimes. Is this something to worrie about?

[Vteckidd]

yes.

white smoke is traditionally COOLANT smoke, but it can be oil smoke as well.

on a fresh motor, smoking can occure for the first hundred miles or so until the rings fulyl seat. Be sure to change your oil at 100 mile intervals for the first 500 miles to get all the metal shavings out.

Check your oil REPEATEDLY an watch your temp gauge. report back if you notice anything out of the ordinary

[2.0civic]

what kind of motor is it?? vteckidd is right though

[Batlground]

Is it all the time? deceleration? acceleration? Idle? Again some smoke after a fresh build is to be expected. If the ring gaps were adjusted for the forced induction this could be a possibility also.

[Vteckidd]

^^^ Also true, turbo motors smoke more than NA motors due to their required bigger "ring gap"

so the real question is who built the motor, and what ring gap was used...

[jimjam187]

Race engineering built the motor dart b20, you know I really dont see any smoke until after i get out of boosting, could it be just blow by? Some times @ idle build has about 1500 miles

[Batlground]

Also the turbo seals are a possibiliy. especially if it is after blow off. 1500 miles? how long did you "break it in"? What kind of Turbo, how many miles on it?

[jimjam187]

Precision sc61r 1500 mile on the turbo. Break in on build 1000 miles.