Overheating
09-05-2005, 09:57 PM
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Overheating
I know this has been discussed a few times recently but none of the topics really matched my problem. I just installed my turbo kit, and just to make sure it was all good, I hooked up a ghetto charge piping system. Well, I wasnt driving my car too hard, I pulled over to the side of the road to enjoy a taco bell taco, and smoke starts comin out of the hood...cars overheating bad. I blew a coolant line on the block it turns out. Well I just started the car again today(this time, no charge piping) and left it idling for...literally under 2 minutes, I was going to do my timing. Well smoke started pouring off my exhaust mani/turbo and it was reallllly hot. Yet I fealt the valve cover, and it was still cold. So its just the turbo portion thats getting really hot 
I dont know what to check, Im thinkin i might have lifted the headgasket, but I am throwing a CEL so i should check that I think before anything like the headgasket. Any ideas?
I dont know what to check, Im thinkin i might have lifted the headgasket, but I am throwing a CEL so i should check that I think before anything like the headgasket. Any ideas?
09-07-2005, 03:31 AM
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09-07-2005, 06:50 AM
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Re: Overheating
what does the ---- smell like? burnt oil, or nasty eggs. if its eggs...its coolant. if its burnt oil....guess what. somewhere your loosing oil and its burning. Is this thr first time you fired your car up and let it get up to operating temp, because if it is, you prolly just have residue burning off the turbo/mani. If you blew a coolant line (which you said you did) it would prolly be a good idea to fix that. :P
check your CEL, thats why its there.
check your CEL, thats why its there.
09-07-2005, 09:28 AM
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Re: Overheating
Wow... Do you know how a turbo works?
Exhaust gasses from your engine turn the turbine in your turbo, sucking in air and sending it to the throttlebody. Those exhaust gasses are then routed through a downpipe to your exhaust and out the back end of your car. If you don't have "real" charge piping or a downpipe, then yeah, there should be some smoke out the engine bay. Otherwise it would be coming out of your muffler.
Exhaust gasses are hot all the time. You do know it takes awhile for your valve cover to heat up?
Not to mention, if this was your first start up, is your car even tuned? Excess smoke could be you running rich. Not to mention kind of a bad idea to be driving around when it's not even near 100% installed. You're just asking for problems. Especially when you say "I wasnt driving my car too hard" which I NEVER believe anyone who says that, because they're usually full of ----.
And you never said what color the smoke is, or what CEL # you had. I would finish your damn kit and then ask questions. I'm amazed that someone who doesn't know how to check a CEL code installed a turbo kit on their car.
Exhaust gasses from your engine turn the turbine in your turbo, sucking in air and sending it to the throttlebody. Those exhaust gasses are then routed through a downpipe to your exhaust and out the back end of your car. If you don't have "real" charge piping or a downpipe, then yeah, there should be some smoke out the engine bay. Otherwise it would be coming out of your muffler.
Exhaust gasses are hot all the time. You do know it takes awhile for your valve cover to heat up?
Not to mention, if this was your first start up, is your car even tuned? Excess smoke could be you running rich. Not to mention kind of a bad idea to be driving around when it's not even near 100% installed. You're just asking for problems. Especially when you say "I wasnt driving my car too hard" which I NEVER believe anyone who says that, because they're usually full of ----.
And you never said what color the smoke is, or what CEL # you had. I would finish your damn kit and then ask questions. I'm amazed that someone who doesn't know how to check a CEL code installed a turbo kit on their car.
09-07-2005, 10:18 PM
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Re: Overheating
ok man, first, I have a downpipe, second, the smoke is not coming out of the outlet where the charge piping attaches to.....its coming off of the turbo itself. The smoke I guess is grey(not white/coolant or blue/oil). Yes my car is tuned, but I need to do the timing. I was about to do that when smoke started comin off the turbo.
And when I say i wasnt driving my car hard, I wasnt, this is the first turbo project ive attempted to take it easy on me eh?
And when I say i wasnt driving my car hard, I wasnt, this is the first turbo project ive attempted to take it easy on me eh?
09-07-2005, 10:47 PM
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Re: Overheating
Originally Posted by Mr Ben
ok man, first, I have a downpipe, second, the smoke is not coming out of the outlet where the charge piping attaches to.....its coming off of the turbo itself. The smoke I guess is grey(not white/coolant or blue/oil). Yes my car is tuned, but I need to do the timing. I was about to do that when smoke started comin off the turbo.
And when I say i wasnt driving my car hard, I wasnt, this is the first turbo project ive attempted to take it easy on me eh?
And when I say i wasnt driving my car hard, I wasnt, this is the first turbo project ive attempted to take it easy on me eh?
the smoke is comming OFF of the turbo...as in its not burning/leaking oil...i wouldnt be to worried about it. im sure there is some residue on the turbo/hot side of the snail thats burning off. i wouldnt worry about it.
