I was driving down the highway and all of a sudden I look in my rear veiw and there's tons of smoke. No matter how I was driving smoke was pouring out. I just got it back from RP performance (streetport, rebuild and new non-seq. turbos). I'm also still breaking it in so i've been under 3000rpms. I looked under the hood once I got home and there was some oil on the turbo's. Just wondering what you guys think.

 

what color smoke? Bluish ?

 

white smoke

 

white smoke

 

take it right back to RP Performance !!!

 

i was supposed to drive it back next week to have them check on it, to see how things were going. I'm sure they'll take care of it but now i'll have to tow it. Just wondering if anyone has any idea's of what it might be?

 

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from under the car or out the exhaust?

 

I'm pretty sure it's coming from the exhaust

 

Uh Oh... But could be a loose turbo coolant hose.

 

yes?? diagnosis please.

 

white smoke means coolant (for the most part)....fire that thing up and remove the radiator cap..let it warm up....I hope to god you dont see any little bubbles...You should have turned around right then and there??

what else did they do

 

same thing happend to me a few weeks ago I blew my turbos up and it was leaking oil into the exhaust and well you know the rest. not saying the no-seq are bad but a bit over priced for little to no gain over stocks and less reliable! im doing a single t04 bit more costly but i belive its well worth it!
one more thing you can do to see if its the turbos or not is remove the intake piping and look for lot of oil! thats what mine had! if you see oil lot of oil past the intercooler and all in the intake system i would bet my fd that its those stock **** hittachi 12's. dont call mazda they wanted over 4k for new ones and if your not wanting to spend tons of money look on ebay for some stocks or see if you can get yours rebuilt

 

if its from the turbos, its gotta be on the primary. i had problems with my car and the smoke only happened when the secondary kicked in. if i just drove around without boosting it, the car was fine.

 

mine does it when i start it when its just sitting any time its on a smoke screen comes out the exhaust but almost positive its not an apex seal because it starts with no problem it just burns oil in the exhaust and shoots it in the intake! thats why im going t04

 

I had a friend look at it who owns a performance shop here and he said he would put money on it that its the turbo besides oil wouldn’t be in the intake like it is from an apex seal

Did your turbos make a funny noise when you let off the gas? mine did, from what I have been told the sound could have been my turbo trying to spin backwards because of a bad bov or something in the compressor side and not enough exhaust to keep it from spinning backwards
let us know what you find out!

 

have you found anything out yet?