Building Custom Turbo for the RX-8
02-22-2007, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
...It is certainly nice to not see or smell oil smoke!
02-22-2007, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MadDog
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.
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.
Originally Posted by Easy_E1
Didn't you have adifferent Avatar earlier? I like variety.
03-28-2010, 10:11 PM
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07-28-2010, 11:14 AM
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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.
It was after reading this and RotoRocks thread that I decided I was turboing the Rx8.
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