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[Fire & skill]

Im asking this as I'm looking for thoughts from people who have maybe had this problem before.

I bought the car as a non runner, its up and running now, the previous owner had just fitted a brand new turbo to the car, I removed the I/C and pipework and it was full of oil, I've removed the oil. just wondering if its possible I have more oil sitting in my exhaust?

I start the car up and it seems ok, idles fine and boost fine, i leave it a minute or so then blue smoke starts coming out

would this seem a logical explanation?

 

[PobodY]

What type of exhaust is it? It seems entirely plausible to me that if it was pumping oil out into the exhaust, it could have collected in the silencer(s) etc - particularly if they're packed with glass wool or baffles for silencing... and unlike water it wouldn't evaporate out nicely when the system gets hot.

Anyone seen this before?

EDIT: It wasn't that RB off eBay was it? That just sold, and the vendor said he'd f*cked the engine by running it without oil!

 

[jjs]

i would give it a good run just keep an eye on the oil level and see if it burns of the excess residual oil and clears its self

 

[Fire & skill]

I'm going to see how easy it is to remove the exhaust - if this is easy enough I'll update the post

 

[johnsy]

any smoke/steam from engine bay?? near manifold when idling