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Old Oct 18, 2010, 09:49 PM
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White smoke while accelerating after new turbo install

I was at Topspeed in Atlanta over a week ago. I had a new FP White installed as well as a FP install kit for the White. I had a Megan Racing o2 housing, which was ceramic coated, installed as well. Now the car drove home from the install fine and the first two pulls on the dyno revealed that there were a few boost leaks. Fixed the boost leaks. Ran the car a third time and then it started to smoke. The more it accelerated the more white smoke came out the exhaust. The guys over at Topspeed took out the turbo with no evidence of oil leaking from the turbo into the LICP. Pulled the sparkers and no evidence of fluids on them. Does anyone have any idea what could be the cause? I have to pick the car up in two days so any suggestions would be appreciated.
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White smoke is coolant. More likely then not it's the head gasket.
Old Oct 19, 2010, 09:12 AM
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^^ Does the smoke have a sweet smell to it? Also does it let out a larger puff when you let off the gas or jab the gas? I'm thinking the head gasket is the culprit too. Maybe do a compression test and a leak down test.
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