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Worked on the car today. I started it up and let it idle for over 30 minutes, revving it a little bit here and there and I look on the newly wet ground and see that there's quite a few droplets of oil. I found that peculiar and continued to do it until the droplets disappeared. During this process smoke became less and less prevalent during the process until eventually it was no longer being emitted at all. I came to the conclusion that the car is only having issues when it comes under load and as such what possibilities that it presents.
From what I can tell of this I can rule out the Oil Control rings, oil injectors, oil feed to the turbo. That leaves only the oil return line. Now if I understand correctly the operation of a turbo oil isn't really being spun to a foam until the car is under load. Since the return line isn't exactly a direct route to the oil pan I believe that the oil foam may be producing cells of air and climbing back up the oil return line. This is then getting backed up to the turbo where, since it has a different viscosity and able to leak through tighter crevices, is by its nature going other locations since the oil is pressurized.
I may be able to remedy the problems by installing hard lines into the NPT threads and making a 90* bend to the oil return port. Though i'm not sure if the cells will build there or return to regular oil viscosity and what not. The only other option would be to integrate an inspection window on the oil return line and see if the foam is actually able to return to the oil pan or if it's just climbing back up and causing my problem.
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