Re: completely bizarre white smoke incident

["Jason" <jason87vw@nac.net>]

Did you recently add too much oil ?

I did this...Your right, it is VERY scary...I was racing some dude, he was
behind me and WHAM...a mile or so later, it went away, and he must have
thought I did it on purpose :-0 Too much oil, high revs and it happens...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Wood" <benwood1@airmail.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:30 AM
Subject: completely bizarre white smoke incident


> Hello all,
>
> Last evening I was driving my 84 Scirocco, following a buddy of mine in
his
> Porsche 968.  He goes very fast into an on-camber 270 degree entry ramp
onto
> a highway.  I keep up (my sticky tires and upgraded suspension doing their
> job) and with about 60 degrees more of the turn to go, my car starts
blowing
> smoke BIG TIME out the tailpipe as I'm winding the motor out through 4th
> gear.  This was not a whisk of smoke, this was a military-grade smoke
> screen.
>
> By the time my brain registers everything, I'm out of the turn, off the
> throttle, and into fifth.  The smoke completely goes away.  Water and oil
> temps doing just fine.  We pull over and everything looks ok under the
hood.
> I wind the car out in 2nd a few times and everything seems fine.  There is
> no water visible on the dipstick and the water level in the radiator
> overflow tank seems about where it should be after everything cooled down.
> The car's motor is mostly stock and has got about 140K on it.
>
> So, any ideas as to what in the world happened?  The car was experiencing
an
> unusually long and unusually high-g turn when all of this took place.
>
> Many thanks!
> Benjamin Wood
> Coppell, TX
> 84 Scirocco
> 93 RS America
>
>
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