completely bizarre white smoke incident

[Marc Getty <marc@getty.net>]

As my victims at Waterfest will tell you, mine only smokes when I press in the
button...

Perhaps your smoke button got stuck? :-)

-MArc

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:30:41 -0500
> From: "Benjamin Wood" <benwood1@airmail.net>
> 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

'74 VW Thing in near daily driver condition but unfortunately sitting
    in storage see it at http://getty.net/thing/ and http://vwthing.org
'81 VW Jetta Diesel gone to the scrap heap in December 1997 after a
    mere 179,786 miles service, man that thing sure could off road!
'84 VW Jetta GLi was SOLD in Oct 1999 with only 164,275 miles to NJ
    see a pic of the Jetta in all it's glory http://getty.net/jetta/
'87 VW SMOKING Scirocco Tornado Red 16V 189,000 miles in Philly PA
    since 7/2/99 - Before and after pics: http://getty.net/scirocco/

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