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I think there will always be a combination of all of them.

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Awesome. I’d also like to recommend College Smog. I’ve used them for a few years now. The guy seems pretty fair and knowledgeable, and he charges about $10 less than everywhere else I have seen.

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[quote=flu]The turbo if it is an issue would be surprising considering I only run synthetic for the past 16years and the car has a turbo timer that leaves the engine running for two minutes after turning off the ignition so that the oil can cool without cooking the turbo. I was running a boosted chip though. The KO3 aren’t exactly known to last that long under a lot of boost. Car has about 110k miles.

And Brian, most cars these.days are moving towards turbo to meet cafe emission rules. So forcing people to drive newer cars is forcing people to go more from an n/a engine to those that are turned and as you say less reliable.[/quote]

What model of turbo timer are you using? I’ve been thinking about adding one to my car. I’m too impatient to wait for it to cool down.

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[quote=flu][quote=mike92104]Were you able to see what the plume smelled like? Turbo seals do fail. The turbo on my liberty uses a bushing rather than a ball bearing for the turbo shaft. They are known to fail, and sometimes catastrophically causing all the oil to be dumped into the intercooler.

A couple other things to look at. Is there any oil in the coolant reservoir? Subarus have head gasket issue, and the normal signs are an occasional slight rise on the temp gauge after a long hill climb, and oil floating in the top of the coolant reservoir. Another thing you could do is send your oil off for analysis. The should be able to tell you if there is any coolant in it.[/quote]

It didn’t smell anything more or less than normal condensation I think. I’ll try again. I think I have a few brain cells left that I can spare in case the CO kills those.

The coolant looks clean. Its pink/purple as G12 coolant should be. My oil temp sensor died at 80k miles so I wouldn’t know if its higher than normal.[/quote]

I’m sorry. I meant the coolant temperature.

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Were you able to see what the plume smelled like? Turbo seals do fail. The turbo on my liberty uses a bushing rather than a ball bearing for the turbo shaft. They are known to fail, and sometimes catastrophically causing all the oil to be dumped into the intercooler.

A couple other things to look at. Is there any oil in the coolant reservoir? Subarus have head gasket issue, and the normal signs are an occasional slight rise on the temp gauge after a long hill climb, and oil floating in the top of the coolant reservoir. Another thing you could do is send your oil off for analysis. The should be able to tell you if there is any coolant in it.

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I’d like to push the limits of eminent domain laws and just take over the team. Personally if the city doesn’t own the team, I don’t care if they leave. The numbers don’t work out anyway.

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Have you witnessed the “white smoke” any other time you have started it? After sitting for a month, I would assume a significant amount of condensation would have built up in the exhaust, and was probably steaming off once it was warmed up enough. If you haven’t seen it since, I wouldn’t worry about it.

As far as the turbo, I thought most were oil cooled.

The Rotella T-6 is also available at Walmart in 1 gallon jugs for $22. Chevron has their Delo synthetic diesel oil for $19 or so. I run the Rotella in my diesel liberty.

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I’m partial to Subaru’s because I owned one.

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What are you thinking about building? Cobra?

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I have one of these:

http://www.harborfreight.com/7-gallon-mixing-tub-46936.html

It’s a HUGE catch pan, and I was able to change my transmission filters on my jeep liberty with no mess at all.

Also, From your pictures, it looks like there’s a drain on the pan, or is that something else?

Mike

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Have you tried reporting it to your phone carrier? They may be able to track them down and deal with it.

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You’ve checked the breaker right?

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If we’re going to spend money, it should be on the convention center expansion. That ACTUALLY brings in money to SD.

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[quote=livinincali]The budgets are tight because the schools have spent too much money on things that aren’t all that useful for educating students. Everybody says the problem is state funding went down but when you look at the actual numbers, per student spending by the state is pretty close to the same as it was 10 years ago. Alright so let’s factor in salary increases for the educators of 50% over the past 10 years if that. So UC schools should be costing about 50% more maybe even 75% more than they did 10-15 years ago, but instead they cost 300-400% more. Where is all that money going. It’s going into more administrators, more glitzy buildings, more things that do little to nothing to provide an education.[/quote]

Exactly. I work pretty closely with UCSD, and have a great example. In one department, there was a consistent 150K/year overage. The “fix” was to move the administrator in charge to a position that hadn’t been filled for a couple of years, hire a replacement AND a “project manager” to help control costs. So they basically added somewhere near 200K/year in salaries to “fix” a 150k/year overage.

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[quote=doofrat]Well I just got a house with solar already set up (so I don’t have a lot of experience with it) but yesterday, the solar heated it from 74 degrees in the morning (it cooled down during the cold spell, and I also turned off the solar for a couple of days as a test) to 82 degrees in one day. This is a 5 ft deep around 15,000 gallon pool. Before I turned it off, it had gotten to 88 degrees on May 1st and was evaporating water like crazy and was starting to grow some serious algae. I’d guess it’ll be near 86-88 tonight with a day like today.
In the townhouse complex we used to live in, the solar didn’t have a regulator, so it’d hit the 90s by July and stay there until September.[/quote]

You might look into a thermostat controlled bypass valve. Hopefully that would be a set it and forget it option.

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