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Originally Posted by FD3S2005
what the piece you got coating above your radiator cap area?
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It is just a decorative plate.
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Originally Posted by wutangben
you gonna go for that ap racing brake kit?
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Yep. I have been lending my engineering services to SakeBomb Garage over the past 6 months or so... I had a little something to do with the development in the AP kit so it will be on my car
Update:
So I started up the car to leave for DGRR and noticed a large amount of smoke pouring out the exhaust. It was hard to tell, but it looked like white coolant burning smoke and it smelt sweet to me at the time. I prematurely blamed my coolant seals and pulled the car back into the garage.
After DGRR once I had some time to diagnose the car I determined that the smoke was in fact not coolant smoke, but was definately oil in nature. The turbos I had just recently installed came off of a car with 30k miles and I had physically seen running bfore they were removed and it did not smoke. I assumed they could not be the issue. It was not oil control rings because the smoke would not start pouring out until 30-45 seconds after a cold start, also plugs were dry after pulling EGI and cranking. I tried various crankcase ventilation options and nothing helped. The strange thing was if I drove the car it would stop smoking all together.
I finally gave up and decided to pull the turbos again. Sure enough the front turbo was pouring oil out the turbine side into the exhaust. I checked all oil feed and return lines and could not find any blockages.
Oil from front turbo
Rear turbo dry
Once I swapped cartridges again and went to install the set I ended up snapping one of the manifold bolts
Off they come again.
I got the bolt drilled out and everything back together. The smoke is now completely fixed. However, im now completely burnt out on dealing with the twins so im looking into single turbo setups...
I have an apointment for alignment and corner balance this friday and a 3 day event at VIR next weekend
