baffling turbo..

David Cooley n5xmt at triad.rr.com
Mon Aug 21 13:15:22 GMT 2000


Never seen red exhaust smoke, but my guess is the volume the pump supplies 
is dropping off... Monitor Fuel pressure at WOT during a run and it's 
probably falling off and running lean.
Red smoke may be rust from inside the exhaust etc burning loose and coming out.



At 08:01 AM 8/21/2000, you wrote:
>Well, been hunting a problem on my friends turbo coupe.....it's not gmecm
>related really, but since there is quite a few tubo buffs on here, I thought
>I might ask..
>It is a 86 ford tubo coupe. Equiped with a 2.3L turbo..
>This year had no intercooler.
>
>When accelerating, in 1st gear, the boost reads 15lbs, but as you put more
>load on it, ie 2nd gear, the gauge starts to bounce a bit then by third gear
>reads 10lbs
>Through the rest of the gears other than 1st, the car surges.. it seems to
>be missing??  But the REALLY REALLY strange part is the red exaughst smoke
>that comes out the tail pipe at higher rpm's...
>
>Also the turbo and manifold will be glowing red after a drive...
>We thought the cat may be plugged.. so we hollowed the cat.. no diff,
>Plugs wires cap and rotor have been changed as well as timing checked and
>fuel press...
>Eveything seems to be fine...
>
>Anyone ever seen this red exhaust smoke before??

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