Oil smoke from exhaust.....damn.
 

Well....as the title states...my car has been helping fog for misquitos lately. It randomly happens when I come to a stop while idling. I cannot induce it nor do I know the circumstance to replicate it. But it does seem to always happen when there is a nice car next to me when driving in downtown Atlanta. Probably happened about a dozen times in the past 3 weeks.
I pulled the dipstick with the car running to check for excessive crankcase pressure and found none. Pulled the intake pipe by the TB and found no oil/residue in the intake, on the TB or in the intake manifold (IM was actually VERY clean and free of soot/buildup). No oil dripping out of the intake filter, some very light oil residue on the bell of the BOV (I assume this to be faily normal for a car that is driven at WOT a lot per oil vapor from the breather line).

After talking to a friend, the first thing he asked was if I had a oil restrictor. Nope....sure don't. About 70k on the turbo with no restrictor. So I located one at a local speed shop. Told the owner what all was happening and he was quite surprised to hear the turbo hadn't blown a seal a long time ago due to no restrictor (the shop is Top Speed and given they built a mega Subaru GC8 to compete in the Redline Time Attack series and stomped the competition in unlimited AWD...I'm sure they know what they're talking about). So tonight I put the restrictor in, loaded up a older map (car has been running funny with the warm temps) and fixed my water pump/alt. belt that was squeaking. Took the car around the block and it seems to feel/smell better...but I'll reserve any final verdict until I've done about a week of driving. I hope it's fixed, if not I guess I'll be looking into buying a new turbo before this one gets too bad... :(

Yeah, pointless thread...but I just felt like posting something. Oh, I was thinking about adding a catch can, but after seeing how clean the IM was, I don't think it's needed.

When I read the tittle of your post I was 99% sure you had the same problem as vash and after reading your post I was right...I don't understand why Garrett wouldn't just make a restrictor already on the turbo

...and if this is such a known issue, I'm surprised FM has not addressed it either :dunno:

Isn't that the way it always works out?

My car is invariably running shitty for one reason or another every time I get a decent challenge from a car I'd normally walk on. Why me??? All that work, only to be embarrassed.


I was scared when I read thread title, I hope it is as simple as a restrictor.