Black Wolf

i thought it could be from the turbo. i have noticed a bit of oil in the outlet from the compressor side of it when i've been working on the air intake, i haven't really checked the outlet of the turbine though. i'll get that done then, thanks for that!

sorry i should have said, its more of a thin blue smoke at idle that gets thicker. but thanks for the help i'll check those out, i don't think the timing has been done on the engine in quite a while

Well its my first post here but I've been into Land Rovers for a while now so, hello to everyone! Ok, in short we've got an A reg S3 that's had an almost complete drive train replacement by us (as per my signature) the only thing is after having suffered a blocked in tank fuel pick-up point the engine smokes alot until its warmed up, even if its at idle it smokes more than it ever has but once up to temperature it'll only smoke under acceleration (which is normal as far as i know). i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas? Background we got on the engine is it came from a disco with about 60,000 on the clock which had a knackered gearbox and was written off (don't ask why, we have no clue), its been put in and we've run with the S3 main and transfer box as they bolt straight onto the 200's for a while and then just recently we've fitted the LT77 and LT203 to help with fuel efficiency, cruising speed and noise.

In my experience of trying to do it, you can do it with the body on but if there is some way you could take the body off it makes the whole job alot easier especially when your trying to make sure the new half is lined up properly with the front 1/2 of the chassis

Heres another way, we did originally have the stock S3 front end on it but the engine was running hot (had an electric fan off a Saab on the rad because the thermostatic one for the 200 wouldn't fit) and the intercooler which we had under the left wing with a scoop to direct air onto it but like the oil cooler too it wasn't doing much cooling so we managed to acquire a disco cooling assembly and made her a new front end as you can see...our engine sat off to one side too so we could get the exhaust fitted but its a custom large bore stainless steel one anyway so i can't comment on and standard exhausts. ...and thats my first post out the way!