Help Pls! Forest Lake

[Raven33]

Hey everyone,

So it's Friday night and I'm driving the 5km's from my place to my local shops where they're having a night time markets, I get there and the place is pretty loaded as you'd expect... so begins the hunt for a parking spot.....

Not even 2 minutes go by and my skyline (which hasn't even hit boost since i left home on this trip) starts leaving this heart breaking trail of white smoke from it's exhaust, it's wasn't a huge amount of smoke, and it wasn't extremely dense either, anyone who looked would be able to tell it was coming from me.

So I've been told that sounds like either turbo oil seal or low compression, called the local workshop (a workshop in Browns Plains associated with Auto Barn) turns out they're closed till after the new year!! wtf is that!

So I need to know of a mechanic who knows turbos/skylines, preferably someone closer than bloody Yatala and open this week!!

This has really gotten too me, I love my car and I'm on a fixed income (on the low end of the scale) this is my dream car... silly i know, but i have shed tears over this... totally devastated.

Any help you guys can offer would be just awesome. PLEASE HELP

~Raven

[Revhead]

I have no idea what's around your area but seriously, if you're referring to Elite Racing then Yatala is worth the trip. I live near Redcliffe and happily make the trip.

Is the car using water and/or oil?

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

drive to browns plains ~18min.. drive to yatala ~ 33min.. this is google maps.. i'd rather drive an extra bit for quality work i can trust

[Raven33]

I have no idea what's around your area but seriously, if you're referring to Elite Racing then Yatala is worth the trip. I live near Redcliffe and happily make the trip.

Is the car using water and/or oil?

yeh I'm starting to consider ERD. whereis.com claims it's only 27 mins from my place, my main concern is driving it so far with this problem going on.

I checked the water level the day after all this started, it's still full, oil on the other hand is getting lower, it's under half way on the dip stick

..it was over half way when i checked it the day before this happened, I thought I'd wait till today (monday) to do an oil change... if low oil is the cause of this feel free to shoot me.

I can see oil on the out side of the turbo on the exhaust side, oil pressure stays around 4-6(closer to 8 on a cold start) on the stock gauge, never seen temp go over half way.

It's a KKR 430 turbo(came on the car when i got it) everything else is stock right down the mags, I've kept boost under 10psi since i got it.

Anyone have any idea how big a job turbo oil seals are? is that a "replace turbo" kinda deal or just do the seals?

Thanks again.

~Raven

[l0WRB]

can just get new seal/bearing kits and re balance prob cost u like 300-400bux

or just buy my KKR480 for sale hehe

[Ty1]

Hey mate just wondering how many km's the car's done?

[ToMMaH]

Go ERD. Get your problem fixed once unlike a lot of other places. Worth the effort to get there.

[33driver]

+1 For Dan at ERD, best service/advice/workmanship I've ever come across!