98 Porsche Boxster Blue Smoke Start - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

ralegen · 04-14-2006, 05:43 PM

Some more pics.

Keddie · 04-16-2006, 02:19 PM

Ok all I have to say is mine had better look as nice as yours. I payed 900.00 with oil change and it had best look like that. Great pics!

ralegen · 04-16-2006, 05:30 PM

Thanks Keddie. My last post didn't have the picture I wanted to show everyone. I guess I chose the wrong one when attaching. Here's an external view of BEFORE and AFTER.

Hopefully these additional pics don't make you feel any worse. But hey cheer up, you had it PROFESSIONALLY done, whereas I didn't.

blinkwatt · 05-04-2006, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ralegen

Thanks Keddie. My last post didn't have the picture I wanted to show everyone. I guess I chose the wrong one when attaching. Here's an external view of BEFORE and AFTER.

Hopefully these additional pics don't make you feel any worse. But hey cheer up, you had it PROFESSIONALLY done, whereas I didn't.

Hey Ralegen how long did it take you in total? Im considering doing a oil change in a few months and figure I might as well change my air/oil seperator as well and clean the throttle body. What tools did you need to do it all? The seperator can be accessed from the service position correct?

Ghostrider 310 · 05-05-2006, 03:31 AM

Hey dudes,

My dealer had overfilled my Boxster just slightly, it makes the start up smoke effect way more pronounced. I changed my own oil, plug and crush ring this year and put the correct amount of 0-40 Mobil one. The car now smokes much less if at all.

ralegen · 05-05-2006, 03:59 PM

blinkwatt,

It didn't take too long. It took me about 3 hours, but I took my time. I could see this being done in about 1.5-2hours easy. In addition to getting to your engine from top, you will need to take off your passenger rear tire.

986Jim · 05-06-2006, 06:07 AM

I started my car up this morning for the first time in a week, and she shot out a nice puff of blue smoke right away. No big deal really, doesn't bother me. You should see the cloud of crap that comes out of the exhaust of the Talon at WOT. With as much boost as I run on huge injectors with a rich air/fuel ratio there's lots of grey smoke (unburnt gas) that comes out. So much so that I can see it in the headlights of the car I'm smoking (literally) behind me...

It's all just part of the fun...

http://www.etdracing.com/jim/backfire.wmv
Here's a nice example at the track. I hit the rev limiter at the top of 2nd here by accident. Sounds like a shot gun lol...