Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...

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

I second this, I too had the same problem happen. Around the time I had my
oil leak I was constantly adding oil, so eventually I just put too much
in...I was passing someone and really opened it up...POOF! White smoke
everywhere...I thought I killed my engine, but a couple of miles later and
the smoke was gone, and the car seem to even run better !?!? Anyway the guy
I had passed was pretty pissed that I smoookkkeedd him :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: Lauri Pettai <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>
To: Scirocco <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>; Dirk Schneider <Dirk@Scirocco2.de>;
Roland Johansson <scirocco@mail.bip.net>; Mike VanAmburgh <vwvr6r@fiber.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...


> Hi
>
> Had the same  thing with my car today and it messed up my good plans!
>
> I was going to the dyno and before I got to there I tought that I'll push
it
> to the limits just for test. I did it and it ran fine to the rev limiter
at
> 7400 rpm.
>
> I went to the shop to tell the guys that I'm here and let's dyno it. The
> dynoguy takes the key and goes to my car while I see, that there is oil
> under my car and the car is smoking enourmosly.
>
> Of course the guy suggest that I should buy a new engine and they refused
to
> dyno it etc. and even offered me to call somebody to tow me home. Well I
was
> a bit pissed and just drove away. after 1 km the smoke was gone and
> everything worked fine.
>
> The problem is, that I had put too much oil to my engine and when I pushed
> it to the limits the oil started to come out from the ventilation pipe
> straight to my air filter and from there back to engine thus causing it to
> smoke.
>
> So try to remember did you rev your car before it happend, just one high
rev
> could cause that?
>
> But also it might mean that piston rings are starting to give up soon!
>
> Lauri still undynoed! :(
> '84 1.8 16v Scirocco GTX Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736)
> http://www.ttu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
> I finally added nothing new to my site!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike VanAmburgh" <vwvr6r@fiber.net>
> To: "Scirocco" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
> Sent: 18. jaanuar 2000. a. 22:46
> Subject: That stinky Scirocco moment...
>
>
> > Weird thing happened with my 88 16V Sunday.  I was waiting in grid for
> > my first run of autoX in Vegas, when I see smoke fuming on by me while I
> > was sitting in my car.  Thinking to myself 'damn that stinks', I look
> > back to see who's car it is and it's mine!  WTF??  I hit the gas and
> > white smokes puffs out.  Not extremely a lot, but enough to get me
> > worried, especially since I have to drive the car 6 hours back to Utah.
> > 10 minutes go by and it's finally my turn to run.  I looked back
> > occasionally while on the course and it didn't seem like the car was
> > smoking anymore.  I get back in grid and no more smoke.  Can anyway
> > explain this?  Is this a sign of soon-to-be engine failure?  The car ran
> > fine the rest of my 10 runs and all the way back to Utah.  Weird.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
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