Thank you sir.. I feel much better now...

tonight I go for the first test drive

Well I have an external oil leak at the turbo, and it is still smoking now onto hour 3 of the break in.. blue smoke and lots of it...

The intercooler piping is dry, but I have oil just dripping out of the bottom of the turbo somewhere.. I cant figure out where...

all the lines are tight... I just don't know..

I think tomorrow I will pull the turbo off and recheck the mating surfaces of the turbo.. tighten it back down, check all of the oil drain bolts and make sure they are tight... make sure the oil drain tube is god and tight.. and go form there...

THIS SUX...

I have about 20 miles on the motor it runs very well, pulls very good, but cant be driven yet, not with the smoke and the leaking oil...

ok I pulled the turbo... the leak was coming from the oil drain.. easy fix...

here is what I see when I pulled the turbo off and started the car...

the first video is of the car just starting up then reving, unfortunatley the towel it was sitting on covered up the lens when I started to rev the car .

the second video is of the car just idling.. I stuck it down by the opening and then pulled away so u could see the smoke coming out of the engine bay

so are we thinking maybe the oil control ring spring may be moving and causing a leak.. or is this not that bad since I only have about 2 hours of running on it...

the liquid u see by the manifold is coolant.. I don't see any liquid oil coming out of the manifold.. and both the outlet of the turbo was dry and the cat was dry...

Vid 1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF3725.jpg


vid 2
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...h_DSCF3726.jpg

Here is what the plugs look like after about 80 miles and 4-5 hours of running

Here you go Kevin. I did this this morning after the car had set overnight

Front plugs (leading plug on left, trailing on right)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...frontplug1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...frontplug2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8.../frontplug.jpg


Rear plugs (leading on left, trailing on right)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...e/rearpug2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...e/rearplug.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8.../rearplug3.jpg

What if anything does that tell you?

mm, not an expert by far, but it looks like you got an oil leak in the front, since the plugs are so fucked...

and the rears look nice and dry..not perfect, but much better.

Are these new plugs that you just put in right after the rebuild? Damn.. the fronts are scaring me.... but then I AM a bit of a n00b. :D

the fronts do look a touch wet but I don't think that bad...

and the turbo and manifold is clean

ok leak solved...

There was a bolt head on the compressor housing that was hitting the drain pipe. This was causing the drain pipe to not sit flush on the cartridge causing a leak anytime the car was running...

I will be putting the turbo back on tonight and going for a nice drive... if everything is cool she will be on the road full time tomorrow..

Total invested 13.00 in gaskets, labor FREE (had a show I do business with check it out and fix it for me)

uh....wasup!