Some updates... I had the car towed 44 miles from Niguel Motors to Church Automotive in Wilmington, CA. Once it arrived we put it on one of his dynapack dynos, and tried to tune the car:
White smoke, in significant quantity, started coming from the car's exhaust... at first it was thought this could be burn off from the new parts, but it didn't lessen after 5 minutes at 3k, and, while the car was running slightly rich, it wasn't running near rich enough to create this level of smoke. We turned the car off, checked the oil coloration, and found it was fine (and was like new, given it was changed the day before), we then checked the oil level, which seemed fine, and tried another 5 minutes at 3k rpm. Still no change, lots of white smoke, but now black oil was seen dripping from the muffler connections:
So I had the car towed 44 miles back to Niguel Motors, and I had to pay $100 for an hour of tuning, which resulted in zero actual tuning.
Once the car arrived at Niguel Motors we checked the drain pipe, and found the oil was draining as intended, and the oil returning to the pan was clean (the oil coming from the exhaust was black) - we then checked the throttle body, and found no oil. Here is a picture of the exhaust connection:
There was a great deal of oil not only dripping from the exhaust connections, but also spraying over the heatshield, etc.:
Next we removed the downpipe, and found this... these pictures are pretty self explanatory:
It would appear the turbocharger unit is leaking oil - there is also some shaft play, which is deeply concerning (especially considering this is a 0-mile turbo).
Here is a picture looking into the exhaust:
and the tail pipe:
Dripping oil from the exhaust connections:
The engine was fully operational when it went in for this turbo installation, and when it was hooked up to the tuner's computer it was producing perfect vacuum, etc. - there is what appears to be a small amount of antifreeze in the tail pipe, along with all of the oil - the car's antifreeze is fine, uncontaminated, so we believe the source may be the aftercooler system (eg there may be a leak somewhere internal to the cooler), we're trying to determine if the aftercooler unit will need to be replaced, along with the turbo.
Right now I am exhausted (no pun intended); I am out x2
44 mile flatbed tow truck trips, I paid $100 to see a car smoke while bolted onto a dynapack, and I wasted both my time, and the time of my tuner. Immediatly following the dynapack "session" I placed a call to HP performance, and spoke with their receptionist. As Jimmy said last week, he is currently out of the office, but I was told by the receptionist I would receive a call back from Nathan "when he comes back from lunch, in around 5 minutes". I am typing this 4 hours after I was told I would get a call back in "5 minutes" from the receptionist... still no call :frown:
After all the crap you've been through with this system and now this? I'd be out of my brain with frustration. Good luck and I hope it's nothing more major than oil in the exhaust...
