NEW turbo. what does this look like to you? WTF

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TType84

cookin with propane
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im so freakin pissed.. i spend a few hours popping this baby on this morning. i started the car and let it idle for like 10 minutes to make sure nothing was leaking and everything was tight. woohoo, went around the block 2 times, wow the new turbo sounds GREAT, way more evil....

by the way, this would be important, stage 3 cheetah in a hotair housing. it has *NEVER BEEN ON A CAR EVER*, BRAND NEW just a year or so old. my good buddy dave bought it and never put it on his car, its been sitting in his basement for a year or so or whatever in a plastic bag.

i pop the hood and notice a little smoke coming off the turbo housing, looks normal, like the paint kind of burning off a little or whatever. i ran inside for a few minutes and left the car to idle to make sure everything was still tight and all.

i come back outside pull out of the driveway and turn off the end of my street. a bunch of girls stare at me and im like ??? as i look in the rear view mirror i notice my car resembles a freaking 2 stroke dirtbike motor, you know the kind you mix the oil with the gas. WTF?

so i mosquito fogged 2 blocks as i tried to turn around.. it kinda gets better at idle, but this turbo is burning oil. is there anything i can do about this?

i took a video of it:
http://home.attbi.com/~threepointeight/badcheetah.avi


could it be anything else? someone please tell me i did something wrong cause there is nothing else i can think of, i figured MAYBE the pcv died and it was just straight up sucking oil into the turbo so it was puking it out after it went thru the enigne.. but i pulled the hose and it was fine..

im about to die here.. everytime i try to fix one thing, something else breaks... im freaking cursed or something.
 
you better be CAREFUL, if its smoking as bad as it sounds......if the nut on the shaft was not TORQUED properly it could POSSIBLY spin off the shaft or loosen up....this would cause VERY VERY bad things that i care not to mention but you would have a hell of alot of oil coming out the exhaust like you said...i doubt its this but its an EASY check take the maf pipe off and take a peak...youll know if thats it....just a quick easy check but i hope its not that:eek:
 
is this something that happens from time to time? new turbo with bad seals?

do you guys think turbonetics will warranty it.. i mean its like a year old or so but it has about 2 miles of <30mph driving / idling on it.. :(
 
Badd Seal

New or rebuilt turbos can have bad seals, send it back to turbonetics. They will be able to see the new condition of it.
 
The way it looks in your video is it looks like stem coming out of the tail pipes. Hope you didn't pop a headgasket. Check your water level and see if you lost any water in your radiator.
 
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