completely bizarre white smoke incident

["Benjamin Wood" <benwood1@airmail.net>]

Hello all,

Last evening I was driving my 84 Scirocco, following a buddy of mine in his
Porsche 968.  He goes very fast into an on-camber 270 degree entry ramp onto
a highway.  I keep up (my sticky tires and upgraded suspension doing their
job) and with about 60 degrees more of the turn to go, my car starts blowing
smoke BIG TIME out the tailpipe as I'm winding the motor out through 4th
gear.  This was not a whisk of smoke, this was a military-grade smoke
screen.

By the time my brain registers everything, I'm out of the turn, off the
throttle, and into fifth.  The smoke completely goes away.  Water and oil
temps doing just fine.  We pull over and everything looks ok under the hood.
I wind the car out in 2nd a few times and everything seems fine.  There is
no water visible on the dipstick and the water level in the radiator
overflow tank seems about where it should be after everything cooled down.
The car's motor is mostly stock and has got about 140K on it.

So, any ideas as to what in the world happened?  The car was experiencing an
unusually long and unusually high-g turn when all of this took place.

Many thanks!
Benjamin Wood
Coppell, TX
84 Scirocco
93 RS America


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