Originally Posted by 99blackhatch

I never drove it and "I" didn't start it up. My mechanic did the rebuild and he started it up.

I originally had the car with this setup, but it smoked when I would take my foot off the pedal or rev it a bit at idle. We tore it down and found a bad ring / scratch on the cylinder wall of cylinder 3.

It was honed and new piston rings and bearings were installed. The upgraded head was installed, and so was the turbo setup.

When the car was started for the first and second time, the car wasn't drove at all, the injectors were dumping fuel into the cylinders, except cylinder 4, it was dry. Raw fuel was coming out of the exhaust.

The next day the car was started again and revved once or twice. When it was revved, blue smoke came out and I believe raw fuel was still coming out. The car still has not been taken out of the drive way.

I don't know if it could be old oil possibly still in the turbo manifold and it is just burning off, or the rings seating, or possibly in addition, the open PCV on the valve cover.


The car wasn't run for long considering that my mechanic said that the raw fuel could potentially ruin the rings. So the car was started up, revved once or twice, and smoke came out. The the car was shut off from what I have gathered from the info I've gathered from my mechanic.