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Out of control smoke machine

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Old Oct 5, 2014 | 05:57 PM
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So there I was ready to go for lovely morning drive when I turn her on and the garage fills with smoke. I pulled her out to the driveway to see what was gong on and I literally can't believe the amount of smoke pouring out of her. I suspect I had to have done something stupid so I started my investigation. Turns out the passenger side cam cover gasket had failed. I theorized the supercharger pulls such a vacuum that it pulled air into the cam cover and sucked oil into the intake and, well, you know the rest. Replaced the gasket, cleaned up the oil and all is good again. BTW, yes it started throwing codes all over the place, left and right bank misfires, blah blah blah. Enjoy......


Yes, that's a pool of oil.





Spent 2 hours digging pieces of gasket out of the cams, found everything except this little bit.



Talk about catastrophic failure, mine that is.



All those pieces were eaten by the cams. No other damage and she runs like a beast.
 
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