Originally Posted by shawn_crx8891
ok, i have this problem with excessive blue smoke when accelerating. i just replaced the turbo because the old one was leaking oil into the turbine side and there was oil in my exhaust. my question is: could the oil from the old turbo have clogged the catalytic converter so much that it blows heavy smoke when accelerating? i just got it running again today and i let the car idle for a total of probably a half hour and drove around for about 10 minutes, hoping it would burn off and stop, but it didn't. the smoke looks white at idle, and blue when accelerating. any thoughts on this?
This is probably a dumb question but, hows your oil drain line? kinked at all? drains strait down?
Drive it around a bit, you may need to burn off the excessive oil left in your exhaust if the leak was bad enough.