Hey everyone I just got my second FD and it has a single turbo conversion. Problem I just ran into is I installed a second oil cooler, took the line coming OUT of the turbo where the oil is the hottest and I put a cooler there and then from the cooler line goes into the oil pan.

FD started smoking crazy right after I did this. I'm thinking it has to be seals in the turbo. I'm thinking its probably because now there is more oil in the turbo because the oil doesn't flow as fast since it has to go through the oil cooler (causing a flow restriction) and the turbo seals are leaking it into the exhaust and it only smokes when everything is hot and the exhaust starts burning it off??

What you guys think? I would love some help/comments/opinions before I do a turbo rebuild or just remove the secondary oil cooler I put in?

Thanks everyone

 

Wait...what did you do?!

That's totally wrong. You need to put the turbo oil drain back to stock. Absolutely the cooler is causing the smoke as the oil drain from the turbo is gravity feed.

 

Yea I'm gonna take the cooler off. It sucks that you can't put a cooler after turbo (between turbo and oil pan) since the oil is the hottest there the cooler would do soooo much good but the restriction is all the extra lines looks to be too much.