A Tales of no brakes and billowing smoke.

[Pac1373]

A sad tale indeed.

So I put a new Battery in the the 85' today, and of course fired her up and drove around on the dirt road out front, as it warmed up, I decided to give it a bit of a snap (Dumb after sitting the best part of 2 years, but thats how I roll)

after a couple of spirited passes, I get clouds of Billowing white smoke.

So, to make a longer story shorter, here are the issues...

-it does not seem to be blowing white smoke like it was.

-Brakes are fucking gone (will inspect lines after it is back on the pad and easy to inspect)

-there is no odor of coolant like I would assume with a blown HG

- Oil does not seem cloudy

Motor is a 2.7L stroked M20B25 (shaved pistons, b27 crank, etc)

Runs Electromotive TecII management.

any ideas what it could be r3v?


for added amusement, after the billowing white smoke commenced
I decide, it was time to put her in the Driveway, as I turn around I loose Brake pressure, which inturn, causes me to over shoot the cement pad at the end of my Drive way trying to park...

So in attempting to reverse out of this, I bend my exhaust into a bit of a pretzel on the concrete pad lip... it has been sprayed with WD-40 so I can remove the exhaust tomorrow and put the car back on the pad to work on...

all in all, the least proud day of e3o ownership ever.

[b*saint]

Cloud and gone brakes... maybe you smoked your brakes?

[Pac1373]

Well, you would have thought I had smoked something to have fucked up my exhaust as badly as I did.
alas, I may have smoked my Brakes in the semi-destruction of my e30, But I SWEAR I did not inhale...

[jlevie]

Billowing white smoke sounds most like vaporized coolant. If a brake lockup was the cause of the smoke I think you'd feel that. The brake failure is probably a leak or a failed mater cylinder.

[Pac1373]

^ thank you for that, I agree that I think the 2 are seperate, kind of an unfortunate coincident.

I will be focusing on finding more evidence of HG failure, it only billowed when it was hot, and I was giving it a bit of gas. after I re-started it some time later, it was no longer producing the white clouds.

thanks for the input.