So just this Sunday, while driving home at night. I was leaving from a buddy's place. I brought up the RPM and slipped the clutch as usual to drive off. We heard a POP noise and shitloads of smoke puked out through the exhaust and some from the under-hood of the car.
Hadn't wrapped my head around what exactly it was, but I had a massive feeling it was turbo related. My initial thoughts were coolant. The smoke has and oily smell however sweet as well. Head gasket? Not likely. The engine itself idled perfectly. Started up fine. Didn't overheat.
Anyway, the car's back in the damn garage again. In pieces, again. I pulled the turbo off tonight and as I suspected, it was the turbo. It was oil. Enjoy what comes next...
01 - Turbine side
02 - Turbine wheel? Wait.. what wheel? It's fucking gone!
03 - Waste gate drenched in oil.
04 - Compressor wheel chip. Very nice... /sarcasm.. or maybe not.
05 - O2 Sensor.. or whatever was left of the probe.
06 - Nasty nicks in the O2 housing. The turbine wheel definitely went through here.
As you can see... The whole turbo fucked itself.. I'm going to call ADP, the company I had rebuild the turbo last year in Vancouver and see what they're going to say or do about this.
I'm sure the wheel or whatever's left of it is hiding in my exhaust along with the other 4.8L of oil. I'm not bothered to take it out as it should in theory only go one way.
Yeah.. So.. I'm really happy with my DSM right now. //sarcasm for real this time.