RobHayes
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Registered: 6th Sep 03
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exactly
im pretty close to tears to be honest, im so fed up with this. been 4 months, and £4k, and i still have fuck all 
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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it got to me an issue with your ECU, or something
maybe even something fueling related, or something left in your exhaust system etc
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RobHayes
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Registered: 6th Sep 03
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im hoping its the exhaust being full of shite from the last engine, as its nice blue smoke
as before, the engine runs 100% smooth, just smokes. cant get my head round it
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Joe
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Registered: 20th Jun 04
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JR has a point, if the engine was fine before will be something that you are using messing it up.
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jr
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how about taking the system off and looking at what is exiting the manifold, or better still taking th manifold off, it will be loud, but atleat yout be able to look at what the engine is producing etc
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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it was a new manifold was it not?
there's no way it can be the engine, surely 
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RobHayes
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it was a new manifold, but its been run with the old engine that was shite, and it did look super black inside
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RobHayes
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does this make sense to anyone?
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A very heavily over rich mixture will also cause this. Excessive petrol in the bores, oil 'washes' up past the rings from the sump, this is called petrol wash
might go and turn my FSE thingy down a bit, see if that makes a difference
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Robin
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i was under the impression that bore wash just sort of dissolved the oil, and made the engine wear because its not being lubricated 
if it was stupidly over rich, it wouldnt start easily
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Greg_M
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Registered: 2nd Sep 03
Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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has this one been rebuilt too?
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RobHayes
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this one hasnt been rebuilt no, been out and turned the FSE down alot, it wouldnt start, so kept uping it until it did, and guess what.....
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Sam
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My Astra started blue smoking when I connected my HT leads to the wrong spark plugs once. But I guess you have ruled this out anyway...
*gets coat*
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
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check your fuel, I had this when I was fitting my tb's, lots of smoke etc.. turned out to be contaminated with diesel (filled up a can with what I thought was petrol) and it was running very rich.
might not be the fuel pressure either, might be the throttles are closed too much and the TPS set too high. got it hooked up to a laptop to check it all?
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Simon_16v
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Registered: 14th Aug 06
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quote:
Originally posted by RobHayes
this one hasnt been rebuilt no, been out and turned the FSE down alot, it wouldnt start, so kept uping it until it did, and guess what.....
Did it work?
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Scotty C
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
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Your not the only one mate. I've had the headgasket done twice, the valve stem seals done twice, then had the pistion rings done, and its still smoking. Im close to giving up too
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RobHayes
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i sorted it, weber fuel regulator bought
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