Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Jason, if you have an 8V I would suggest you check your air filter. It is 
probably FULL of oil and now serving as an oil filter. My other Rocco did 
the same thing whilst doing insane burnouts in the parking lot near my 
house. I very nicely drove the car home and checked the air filter only to 
find it FILLED with oil. Replaced the filter and gee guess what? No more 
smoke :) I then called the PO and asked him why it was like that and he said 
that one time he broke an alternator belt (which drives the water pump as 
well) and didnt want the car to overheat so he added about 4 quarts of oil 
ON TOP of the 5 quarts already in the crankcase! Apperantly it worked cause 
it dint over heat and it hasn't had any problems since I got it.


>From: "Jason" <jason87vw@nac.net>
>To: "Lauri Pettai" <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>,"Scirocco" 
><scirocco-L@scirocco.org>,"Dirk Schneider" <Dirk@Scirocco2.de>,"Roland 
>Johansson" <scirocco@mail.bip.net>,"Mike VanAmburgh" <vwvr6r@fiber.net>
>Subject: Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:41:21 -0500
>
>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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Chris DeLong
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Seattle, WA USA
'80 16V Rag
'65 Bus (ugly, but good for campin' W/toaster oven)
'82 GLI (with a severely mangled trunk lock thanks to the fucking thieves!)
'80 'Vert
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