Just wondering if anyone else had/has this issue. I just dropped it off with the mechanic today. I just had my Turbonetics single kit installed about 3 months ago. I baby the crap out of the car, and now upon just cruising barely touching the pedal, white smoke comes pouring out of the exhaust. To get it to stop, I hit the gas. Also doesn't appear to do it while in neutral, doesn't do it when Im on the gas, only when I'm just maintaining the same speed. The car isn't overheating and there is no "milky" substance around the oil dipstick, so that probably rules out coolant prob, which is usually what contains white smoke. Oil level looks good, and oil looks healthy. Anyone having or heard of this?

 

you can still eat coolant without it going in the oil passages. Instead of checking oil, check your coolant for signs of carbon. lets see what the mechanic will say.

 

just get a Garrett GT35R. replace the turbo under warranty and sell. for some reason the batch for the 350z kit is a hit and mess with their turbos

 

its either your return oil line or your crankcase ventilation kinked up.

 

really?!?! Hmm so you think it could b a turbo issue? I hope it wasn't a miss!!! Turbonetics seems pretty reputable. I just figure it would b the turbo if it was smoking upon actually entering boost. This smoke is when Im barely if at all boosting. So the turbo isn't spooling up and then smoke pouring out. O well, I guess I will just have to wait to c what the shop says, was just hoping some1 has had this b4.

 

oil line or crankcase...either one of these costly? I hope not, It was good timing bc I'm getting the new clutch put n this week, so it was going to b n the shop anyway, but I was kinda hoping to b able to cool w the money one the z for a while. lol It's a damn addiction!

 

^not costly at all. if your return was fine and never expeirenced smoke before. then it cant get kinked all of a sudden. its your turbo buddy.bearings are gone.

I hope I am wrong for your wallet sake.

 

not really....for wallet sake...I've got a warranty on that baby, It's a brand new turbonetics kit, and I ordered it through my shop, but I'm almost 100% sure that it was coming w a warranty!

 

plus on top of that, if it was the bearings...wouldn't it b smoking all time? especially when I'm n boost?

 

nope, could even smoke at idle. they do take forever to fix something.

 

welp....bad news.....

It's the Turbo...
good news....
It's under warranty!!
I can't believe that, apparantly the Turbo is burning a lot of oil, didn't do that at first, but then all of the sudden, tons of smoke from oil burning, really glad I didn't run it too long and screw somthing else up, time to test out what everyone else was saying and hopefully the turbo doesn't take too long to come to me

And to answer another question by by Old School- Its the Turbonetics Reflash at 8 lbs.

 

btw....wannabuy- what's ur reason for not putting n another turbonetics turbo? Why why garret gt35r? any reason in particular? Wouldn't that void my warranty for every other part?