There's a difference in black smoke and blue smoke.

 

No.

 

really my smoke is navy blue...sometimes when i am happy it turns pink

 

I'd say it's your valve seals then. The turbo shouldn't be dead with that few of miles and no true abuse.

I seriously doubt you've washed down the walls killing the piston rings, too.

 

i recomend changing all valve stem seals.

if your taking the time & effort to replace the exhaust side, might as well replace the intake side too.

take care & look & see that the retainer doesnt foul / damage the seal when fully compresed......one would think the spring should reach coil-bind before damaging/touching the valve stem seal.....but if you dont look to verify, you'll never know.

 

Aby,

Alain installed brand new intake valve stem seals when the cams were installed. It is the exhaust valve stem seals that were re-used.

Justin

 

how do you know that you guys didnt damage a intake seal during assembly or received a defective seal?

my thinking is, your there, swap them all.....if it still smokes, you'll have to do it again.

 

quit the guessing game, go get a leak down test.

 

r u tuned for the new parts u just installed?

 

Yes...and here is the current DLL:

 

I know the car has low miles on it, but it could be the turbo seals. My had 16k on it when I blew my turbo seal (don't remember but didn't you say you had something done to the turbo) and if you don't show any funny stuff on your plugs than I would say it is coming after them which could be in your turbo!

 

The only thing that has been done to the turbo is the hotside has been ported. The turbo itself isn't taken apart to remove the hotside, so the seals weren't "broken". I haven't ran crazy amounts of boost, and the turbo has very low miles, so there isn't any reason why the turbo seals would be blown. Also, if the seals were blown I would see oil seeping outside the cover. That isn't the case.

 

I would say that it has piston ring damage for some reason. Do a compression test and check at least for any deviation between the cylinders.

 

I thought about the turbo seals as well, and I don't think that would be the cause of this unless you were putting the thing back together by hitting the shaft with a hammer. I've made turbos go bad before (and causing them to smoke blue much like you're describing) but it was by running them way outside of their efficiency range (14B at 18 PSI, Small 16G at 20 PSI) for extended periods of time. Extended periods = 5th gear from around 2000 RPM's to redline, over and over again for about 3 months each before they finally gave up the ghost.

 

subscribing, as I had some blue-ish smoke on the dyno the other day