ok now when i drive normal and on the throttle i have no light grey/white smoke. but i notice when i sit in a drive through i start getting smoke. quite a considerable amount. i have had friends follow me and said they saw nothing.


so i guess the quetion is would this be the turbo leaking oil at low rpm then smoking out or worst case senario would it be rings. i have worked on cars for a while and i know if it was a ring then it would smoke like crazy when i drive. and i constan;y check my oil and i am not burning alot. infact i have not even noticed a significant drop in oil. ok any input would be greatly appriciated.


oh and mods i have is gruppe-s v2 header helix up-pipe and helix tbe with retune


Gil

 

Getting a lot of smoke out of the exhaust when you are in the drive-through? It's difficult (but not impossible) to see your smoke trail though a rear view mirror when you are driving the car under load. If a car is burning oil, that's one of the times you will be most likely to see smoke out of the exhaust. The other time is when the car has been at idle for a couple of minutes, particularly on a hot day. That's another time when oil-burners are likely to smoke a lot.

If you get a lot of tailpipe smoke (white, if your engine oil is clean) after idling for a while, your engine is probably burning oil due to worn valves or valve seats or worn piston rings.

Most car manufacturers will say that oil burning is not a problem that needs to be fixed until you are burning more than a quart between oil changes. You may have less tolerance for oil burning, though... especially if your car is trashing the local In-N-Out with billows of pollution. It's doesn't make a very positive impression on the babes that work there, either.

 

as for oil change i am changing it next week after i get paid. it is due maybe overdue any recomondations of oil i was thinking royal purple . as for billowing smoke it isn't billowing just something i noticed. but thanks for input.


thanks Gil

 

Anytime Gil. For what it's worth, the same thing was happening on my '90 Eclipse GS Turbo after i put 240K miles on it. It happened at 199K too. When it happened at 199K I had all of the valves redone and that fixed it. But at 240K the problem was rings. I just drove it that way because I'd only see smoke when i went through the dyno test for smog, or every time i idled for more than a minute on a warm day. I sold the car at 260K.

Even with the visible oil burn on the Eclipse, it never burned more than a quart between my 3-4K mile oil changes. It produced pretty good clouds of smoke.

They say some subies just burn a little oil from time to time and it's really not a problem if it's a little smoke, like you describe.

A compression test might give you an idea if something is amiss with the valves or rings.

I've used Castrol GTX on all my cars for the last 30 years or so.