Tonight i was driving my car pretty hard for the first time in a good while...i was boosting full 10lbs a good amount of times. Temps were great. Oil pressure in check. I have developed an oil leak recently around my pan and a very small one at the hoses near filter. Pull into parking lot and pop hood, smoke is coming out...very light cloud...white cloud very very light small cloud like steam but it smelled like burned clutch almost (no gasoline smells at all) it just seemed to be coming off of the intake manifold thats all i can say..i couldnt locate it to a specific point and i had a very bright xenon flashlight

- figured it was just the tire shine i had applied to my hoses (about 2 weeks ago I applied it though and now i noticed the smell)

kept driving...after driving for a good while and popping the hood, the same thing happens...any ideas...could it possibly by the oil burning off from the pan at the bottom and rising up or very slight amount burning off of the hoses at the filter and rising up?

- i know in the turbo II's peopel have experienced turbo gasket problems...could this be possible?

 

bump

 

Mine did that turned out to be a very tiny pin hole in one of the block hoses, couldn't locate it till it finally got big enough to see. Looked like it was comming from under the UIM before it got noticable it was the hose on the front of the block by the alternator.

 

oil hose? or coolant...im 99% sure this isnt coolant becuase it doesnt steam up on anything or cause condenstation and it smells like clutch...

 

ok...well this mornign i test it
1. got under the car w/ break parts cleaner and sprayed off any bit of oil i could find all the way up to the filter
2. same on top of the car in the engine bay
3. cleaned off all of the tire shine off of the hoses
4. ran the car for about 15 mins up to 190f with no boost...pulled over and popped hood...the smell was barely there from the turbo side of the engine no smoke at all
5. ran the car for 5 mins with max boost of 10psi doing a few pulls up and down hill in my neighborhood
6. returned home popped hood w/ car running, colorless smoke coming up from the turbos it seems like...it just comes up above the turbos...its not thick enough to locate where on the turbos but just smoke coming from the turbo and blow back behind the intake manifold and up into the air....its right where the turbos attach to the engine it looks like...somekinda gasket leaking i donno....smells like burning rubber/clutch/oil i donno the smell of burning oil really
7. WHAT DO I DO?
8. no blow by oil whatsoever and barely any oil level drop after a full day of hard pulls and a leaky pan
9. oil presuure gauge might be broken becuz it only shows a little over 60lbs when full boosting

 

bump? anyone experienced this before? oil feed gaskets?

 

i hope i dont catch on fire tommorrow