Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...

[Mike VanAmburgh <vwvr6r@fiber.net>]

Now that you guys mention it, this IS probably what happen.  I added
some before heading down to Vegas and might have put a little too much
in.  Makes sense.

-Mike  

Jason wrote:
> 
> 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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