llokey123

i have a friend who will plug it into his computer for me and later i am posting a video of the symtoms and the general condition of the car as i might get lucky and find someone who wants the headache of it :)

After all the work to find where the vacume pipes go and to finish the rebuild of the passenger side head and replacement piston ,the car now starts fine and ticks over very smooth,when i drove it on the road 30-40 mph with gentle throttle it cut out like was starved of fuel it then perked up and ran fine for about 15 miles,i took it for an mot yesterday and it passed with no problems,i collected it from the mot station thismorning and felt confident to give it some throttle but the car felt very held back and didnt boost ,the revs semed to stop at 5 and there was no power,it then started cutting out in a on off way but it did not stall,then it settled down and ran fine for a mile or so,then it done it again when i was doing only 15mph,,i have got to the point where i just dont know weather to sell it as it is or find someone to fix it,i cant take it to Z-WORLD as its nt taxed and its expensive to get it transported over to them..ANY IDES WELCOME.

just a thought as i have similar problem having only blue smoke from one exhaust when car is driving and giving boost,so could you clarify that you now have no blue smoke on acceleration. thanks. Anthony.

As this thread is quite relavent to what i am now asking on the back end of my thread "in at the deep end" i was hoping to get some clarification here as a backup plan :) Firstly i thank all the guys who have helped me out over the last couple of weeks to get my car running. I have managed to get it air leak tested and it had many leaks which are now fixed,it did smoke for a few minutes the first time it was started but that cleared and it does not smoke when idleing at all ,but once going down the road when i slightly boost the car it blows quite a lot of blue smoke out of the passenger exhaust,this was the side which has had the new piston and i know the car had been run prior to me purchasing the car so i was wondering if there could have been lots of oil in the exhaust which could cause this problem as it had a broken piston. The blue smoke clears within a few seconds once the car is idleing again and it will rev up lots without any sign of smoke,then the blue smoke re apears once its pushing any boost at all,someone mentioned to me that it could be the EGR valve or PCV ?,the turbos are not the ones fitted to the car from new as i am led to believe they were replaced with after market ones. I also checked the pcv valves when the plenum was off and they are both free moving and the pipes are clear and free from any signs of gunk.

oops nope i did not get your e-mails,you can txt me your contact number on 07760 665 695 cheers.

well,it drives but not too well it seems that it can be sat ticking over for 45 mins and will rev up with no problems it idles smooth and does not miss or blow any smoke at all,not even from cold, but once its on the road and you give it even a small ammount of boost there is quite a bit of blue smoke from the passenger tailpipe,then when it idles again it clears in a few seconds until its moving and under any pressure and the same happens,,is this turbo gone?

ok just email me to my personal email which is ahartwell@hotmail.com

oh and another quk question now i have fixed 99% of the leaks and bloked off the 3 pipes that i cant work out where they go my boost guage on tick over is -5 and before fixing leaks it was at +7 what should it be when its ticking over ,the guage is an after market one plumbed into the top bar on the plenum chamber.

oh my email address is ahartwell@hotmail.com

wow and thank you i would like to take you up on your offer ov having a peek under the bonnet of yours it will help me lots :) please send me an email with your contact number on and i will phone you to arrange a suitable time for yourself for me to come and see the pipe layout..on a brighter note i made aboost leak detector today and have found many leaks and fixed them,on a down side it seems the rear gasket of the sump is leaking but not the end of the world i suppose.

ok got a good progress report today,seems the misfire was due to a duff plug and the smoke from the side of the engine was oil that was sitting in and arrou nd the turbo housing from when it was laying arround in the unit for 7 months,,i think there are still isues with the piping of the car as there is defenetly some air leaks and i still have 3 pipes which i have no clue where they go,but all seems well and she ticked over for about 40 minutes and the temp was fine and fan come on and went off as it should,the oil pressure is not great but could be due to lazy sensor or switch which i am told is a common issue,does anyone know what measures i should take to run the new piston in, what rpm is safe and for how many miles etc.

well if i could find someone local to come and have a look it might save me some cash transporting it over to tamworth,i just hope that the smoke cumming up from next to the turbo is not from the head or its game over,,Also please answer me this one....on the diagrams i followed for the installation of the vacume pipes it states that there is a pipe off the compressor housing of the turbo,and in the big book i have it also shows a nipple and pipe from the metal housing but these turbos do not have one nor do they have any input for water pipes its only an oil pipe from the pressure swithch which runs to the turbo and one pipe off the actuator. If you know anyone who could come and take a look at the car at its location at a unit in coventry maybee they would be able to tell me if there is any point in getting it transported to z world for further test as if its something bad i will just break the car or sell it as it is.

yep i think your right, i have given myself a big pat on the back for getting this far and am sure that it will not cost too much for someone to look at it now it actualy starts up.

well its back together and i have only 3 pipes that i cant find where they go but i think now there are much more serious issues with it,shold i start a new thread for them?. I have not attached any air intakes after all the work i have done i needed to see weather it actually fired up,,which it did but after a minute or two it started chucking jet black smoke from the exhaust and several plummes of constant smoke started to come up from the side of the engine on the passanger side ,and its still missfiring as it was when it was first stripped down,,any ideas to what i should check are welcome..

oh gosh mee too,appart from the engine problem its a nice car only having done 90,000kms and its in black with the black leather :)