Re: That stinky Scirocco moment...

["Lauri Pettai" <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>]

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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