Hello fellow sau members,
Around a month ago i had a minor accident in my r32 rb25de skyline. The car hit a tree at around 15km/h, didnt stall, didnt make any funny noises, no smoke out the exhaust (that i remember), i even drove it up the road to a mates house where it sat for 2 weeks with only one problem of the steering being heavy. Opening the bonnet showed the front bar / reo bar had been pushed into aircon condensor whiich then pushed in my LHS light / radiator support panel and punctured my charcoal cannister. Nothing was against the engine fan and only the fan shroud had been pushed into the power steering pump. Even looking under the car showed no damage.
The extent of the damage wasnt much, aircon condensor, front bar, charcoal cannister, reo bar and one light were all the parts that needed replacing / were damaged. In fixing the car myself i took out the stock radiator, replaced with a custom one, run the tranny lines through a seperate cooler (A/t) and Power steering lines through a sperate cooler (instead of the hardline stock cooling). I have taken out the charcoal cannister also and not replaced it (plugging the two lines going to plenum / throttle side of engine and venting the fuel tank line).
When all of that got connected i turned her back on. Only too hear a slight ticking in the plenum, white exhaust coming from exhaust and petrol smell in oil. I know the white smoke might be from it being cold / not being turned on for a while, but even after 5 minutes of idle it was still blowing white smoke.
Does anyone know whats happened here and / if its a result of taking my charcoal cannister out.
Cheers dewa32