i took it for a drive this morning.

under any kind of driving it lets off smoke...but if im moving it doens't let off enough to be visible

 

so seems like its the turbo seal?

 

im hoping so.

can i still drive it like this??

 

if its a seal you can drive it but check your oil and I wouldnt drive long with it like that.

 

what are the other symptoms of a blown head gasket?

my car runs fine...other than being a little lean at idle. and when i shift gears

 

check your oil dip stick for water

 

How lean at idle? afr's are always going to bounce around while shifting.

I'd look for pink powder build up around where the head meets the block. Compression check too.

 

no pink powder

and it does bounce around, but sometimes it goes lean and the car actually dies out...

i'll do a compression check soon

no water on the oil stick, tho for some reason my oil was abnormally low...i think it was cuz ive had a crazy leak for the past couple days

 

Yea keep a check on the oil level. If it is the turbo seal then drive it till you can fix it. More then likely thats it.

 

It sounds like the turbo seal.

If you HG is blown, some other symptons could be a boiling overflow catch tank, an dextremely high water temperatures (seen on the water temp gauge).

 

when I had my turbo I started blowing out white smoke after a while and it was the turbo seals, I never really understood why everyone is saying that oil is blue

I was blowing white and when I opened up my turbo piping I had a lot of oil in the compressor housing

 

where can i buy new seals?

 

drove it again today, fixed some tuning issues....

isn't blowing out white smoke but i fear it might be too soon to say

 

I still say it's the turbo seals.....i'm having that problem now and I'm waiting on todd to give me the green light to send payment to him so i can get the plumbing lines i need to swap on for my new turbo.

 

i thought you were selling

 

^^ yo matt where the F you been? How's your car?

 

when I blew seals on the turbonetics turbos the smoke always had a blue tint to it. Maybe different oils burn different colors?

I always ran the turbonetics oil or Royal Purple.

 

here we go thread jacking again
cars good
been saving for a bike

 

^^thats good man.. good to "see" you again.. haha what kind of bike?

on topic post:

different oils have different compounds and ammounts and will tend to have slightly different colors but most burn with a blue tint, ive even seen straight white.

 

i did, call me..i'll tell you what happened. i lost your number haha