did some funny things on startup..

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Ok, heres what happened. car ran pretty good when i noticed oil in my hose, by my inlet bell. So I pulled the turbo, and noticed a decent amount of shaft play. So I get another, what i think is good stock turbo, and throw it on. while in the process, i painted the compressor housing and turbo mounting bracket, a high heat aluminum, got a new black aluminum maf pipe, new hose connectors, coated a set of stock headers in vht high heat grey, and threw them on there with kirbans header gaskets, and mounted the turbo with a copper gasket, and a small bead of ultra copper on both sides.
while in there, i retorqued my new valvecover gaskets (about 2 months old) and all of this, happened over a span, of about 1.5 months.
So I now turn it over, to see if my batteries actually still good, and drips of water, start to pour out of the turbo/header joint. WATER?? its a decent drip rate too. where in the heck is water coming from????

 

[QUIP'6']

probably condensation that appears out the tailpipe. is it cold there? probably need to tighten bolts a little. mine did that when i had down pipe off looking for oil out the turbo and water sprayed my fenderwell when giving gas

 

[mikestertwo]

Water is a byproduct of combustion. When the exhaust system is cold, the water condenses on the inside of the pipes. You probably have a small leak and the water is coming out of it. It will disappear when the exhaust warms up. I get this at the joint between my THDP and the turbo when cold.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

ahh ok. thats SORTA what i thought, but wasnt quite sure. as the older turbo was bolted to the hooker headers, with some stupid solid steel, eighth inch thick gasket of some sort. when i bolted the new turbo up, i had a good copper gasket on her, WITH some rtv as well. i didnt expect to see that much water flowing soo quickly but, there was some smoke comin out as well, from the engine bay. is it possible the vht coating was smokin a bit?

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

ok, now, once i let er run for about 5 minutes. the exhaust housing started smoking immediately (the housing itself, not anything else) and only got worse during the 5 minutes. its to the point where i got scared, so i shut it off. what would make an exhaust housing smoke like that? it was the external surface of the iron. was really weird, but there was soo much smoke, i had to just shut it off. anyone?

 

[Grumpy]

the paint burning off

 

[TurboDave]

Oil and grease on your hands ended up on the exhaust housing. That's what's burning off.

BTW, that high temp VHT isn't going to last at all on the headers.

2000° cermic coating is about the only thing that can handle the heat.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

are you sure thats whats burning off? i sure hope so. and theres a board member, that has had their headers now. for 7 years, with that vht coating on it. its still there too. so well see. if not, oh well, ill have to take em off again (a pain in the ass)