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Managed to sort this yet matey?

If it turns out to be the turbo, gimmie a shout - Im a bit of a dab hand at turbo swaps

Also, Make sure you buy a decent turbo and not a cheap crappy item (Decent GT28 Turbos are around the £5-600 mark, cheap ones are less than £200)

i did this. there was small amount of oil in the pipes. started the car up and reved to 3.5k and no oil came out. so that seems ok. all oil pipes breath ok too.

im taking the engine apart next month (when i have holidays from work) and will post up my findings.

mines is a Garrett GT28 not a cheapo one. so if it is the turbo a recon would be better(cheaper) wouldnt it?.

Are you stripping the motor because of this, or to recon it / fit new pistons etc?

If its for this it really isnt worth it yet mate....

The car wont run and rev with an intercooler pipe off, are you sure you checked the right one?

The turbo wont produce enough +ve boost at a standstill to blow oil through the breathers or oil seals.

It could be as simple as some hose and a catch can mate, £30 worth maybe.
If yours is a Decatted car (Which Im pretty sure it is) this breathing is a common problem (Check the SXOC) - some fit breather systems, some fit one way valves to stop the smoke....

As for the turbo, I know you have a decent one already mate, just didnt want you to be tempted by the cheap ones rather than recon / replace the one you have. personally I dont trust recon turbos, they just dont last like new ones plus a decent recon will cost upwards of £300.

Whats the spec of the turbo matey? A/R's, Blade trims etc?

this is all i know.

Gt28rs turbo (Less than 2000miles covered) with HKS adjustable actuator.

The turbo is a Garrett aka Air research its a "GT28RS" rollerbearing turbo

info pulled from PM's before i bought the car.

Anyluck with the fella from preston matey.

My lsd is forsale if you havnt got one on yours matey.

No nothing mate. doin my head in now. would of thought he would of got back to us about it. maybe he will this weekend with it being holiday.

Spent some time at a top electrical bloke's place yesterday



can you guess were? we finished the day off by blowing something up in the engine bay that we could not find to fix

also got some wheels to have fun with.

Have u fitted them wheels on yet? they look like they wud look quite nice on ye car. Hope ya find out that thing that got blown like.

Top !!!! wow i ain t never been called that before lol, shame we ran out of time on it, perhaps on sunday you and chewy can come round and we can have a dam good look over the car. we will get it sorted matey !

cant mate im off work til Thursday

ill probably end up fitting fixed angel lights just to stop any future problems. im not too sure on the look of them on the s13 tho.

hmmmmmm your choice buddy, im guessing thet are all like this

just like that mate yeh

I am thinking about them lights too matey but my cars costing me enough as it is and i will have a strewberry face front end in the nextyear or two so wouldnt be worth it nice lights though.

Whelan - I was behind you through west kirby the other day, and that smoke problem looks a lot like breathers mate - very rich and light oil.