Mine doesn't have visible smoke (right now) but I HATE that smell! Its so bad that my GF refuses to ride in the 8 and tells me I stink when I get out of it! That's one reason my project moves the turbos up to the engine bay. I hated the PITA of chasing oil leaks on the GReddy setup. Just getting to the damn thing was a knuckle-busting exercise in frustration.

Well, I had gotten the GReddy not to leak anywhere - except internally.
It would smoke everytime I allowed it to idle for more than 30 seconds and it would emit a HUG cloud when I would have a hot restart.

On the new turbo, I jumped through some hoops to fabricate the oil return and along the way it leaked.
The leaking saturated the header wrap and coated the undercarriage and it was still burning off even after I solved the leak.

Of all the automotive smells, that one I could do without.


'Tis the spice of life!

Jeff,

Nice home made turbo mainfold..lol I had to bring it back because it shows that your one of the pioneers in the RX8 tunning world.

Ben

Amazing to see the strides in turbo manifolds :)

http://www.turblown.net/store/index.php?productID=59

Pardon the thread necropsy but 225whp at 6psi, back in the day. Awesome. ;)

This thread is awesome. I remember reading through it on my first day as a member of Rx8club :) It was after reading this and RotoRocks thread that I decided I was turboing the Rx8.

What a long, strange journey it has been.

Its fun to read this thread and see where everyone is nearly 6 years later, you, RG, charles, hymee, richard paul, etc. quite the time machine.

You sure have tried a lot of configurations ...

Actually, twice as many as are outlined here on my own car.
A handful more on others.

nothing like a almost 6 year old thread that still delivers.
A time capsule indeed.

Respect, Jeff. I'd love to have these kind of fabrication skills. I'm glad I found this thread.

so you should post some new updated pictures