No there isnt any oil pressure going back to the oil pan to my knowledge, so and dip, or kink, will cause the oil to puddle up and restrict the flow. I believe this happened to my buddies turbo as well.

Ace: I have a tendency to see very small details. Maybe it was the camera angle or the flash, but I clearly see it either flatten out near the fittings, or actually dip right before going into the pan.

 

ill double check it tomorrow and see if i can reroute my oil return... im afraid that it'll hit the downpipe and burn up

 

yeah thats never good..

 

you could wrap your downpipe if your that worried about it or find something to sleeve the line with

 

yeah i'll just get some thermal exhaust wrap.... what are the chances its my piston rings being blown up? and my idle is really rough too... it bounces between 300-1000 rpm.... would that be the tune?

 

turn car on pull dipstick out...if u see smoke outta that or outta the cranks crase breather during idle then u have a bad ring

 

hmm... a bunch of smoke was coming out of the turbo last time... but we kinda knew it was blown... we got a rebuilt turbo that we just put in. as of now, the condition of my car is... the check engine light is on, sometimes it tells me theres a misfire in cylinder 1, and most of the time im getting the crankshaft sensor error... but my main concern is the smoking problem...

 

so the new one is smoking too? hmm idk could be oil burning off the exhaust and head that was trapped in it......but the cylinder 1 and crankshaft codes seem like tuning/aem resistor codes to me

 

oh no new one isnt smoking.. well at least i hope not.. but i kinda want to solve the codes first and make sure all the wiring is correct before i start up the car with the new turbo in... man i really hope this new turbo isnt going to smoke... i invested more than what i expected to already

 

do you have resistors on your aem harness? and chekc your plugs to see if they are fouled

 

Use a -10an line.

Labyrinth seals can handle a max of 100psi. You should not be seeing that much pressure by the time your oil feed takes oil from the head.

If you had a turbo fail and spew oil odds are there is residual oil in your intercooler and you should remove it and flush it out. Let it dry then reinstall.

 

just ran my car a little.... it only smokes when i hit boost and afterwards, i look at my turbo and theres smoke coming out of it....

 

no more white smoke! This was our problem... we pulled it and plugged it up on the intake side..

 

do i spy my tial!!! lol

 

oh my goodness you sure are lucky that you didnt drive for long...that was letting boost into your crankcase and putting stress on all the seals on your motor and piston rings......did u get tuned like this?

and how did u realise u messed up so badly

 

it was tuned like that but i did a compression test and it turned out fine... now thats solved... the real tune starts tomorrow!

also we fixed the crankshaft sensor problem... it turned out that we threw a resistor onto

cam1 magi+ to crank1 magi-

instead of

cam1 magi+ to cam1 magi-
crank magi+ to crank magi-

theres another CEL but i think its telling me im running rich... really rich... lol i was smelling gas at idle and it was bogging

but we'll see after tuning!

 

wow did know you routed you breather like that, that should be it.. hopefully there was no damage but yeah thats messed up.. I like how you did you pipe and intake

 

we didnt figure it out till we had another person look at it.... best 40 bucks i've spent EVER!

 

lol ahhhh not bashing but this is to others, this is an example of why u need to learn how certain things work before attempting boost lol

glad u got it solved

 

i agree...... but they just overlooked it... i brought it to a shop to get my turbo installed... then brought it over to another shop to solve that problem