Hi guys,
I'm looking at buying this car, it drives really well, but it puts out some white smoke, both cold on idle and when it's been running for 10 mins or so held at 1500rpm. I took it for a quick spin up the road, gave it a boot full to check the turbo and to see if the white smoke would clear, but it gave a puff of blue smoke under hard acceleration when under load. It pulls really well and there's no rattles or whines from the turbo etc.
Seller says it hasn't consumed any oil.. but it was defo blue smoke.
I'm thinking injectors for the white smoke, possibly turbo seal for the blue? I'm thinking it wouldn't be head gasket or valve seals because it doesn't put out blue smoke on start up and it runs really well. There was also no signs of cross-contamination at the coolant reservoir and the oil filler/dipstick.
I'm looking at it more as a project, any ideas? It's cheap enough that if it's a total dog it won't make me cry too much. I just want to figure out what it could be!
It's the ASB engine model, with just under 160K