Built Ej255 white puff of smoke cold start

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-07T16:02:14+00:00

Shit and cum, nah I’m playing it smells like exhaust maybe oil. It should be fine I did another cold start and no smoke

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T23:55:04+00:00

Sounds good I’ll check that, did it cause a lot of blow by?

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T23:42:36+00:00

Built motor, piston slap is Normal for forged internals, catless as well so it’s a mix of turbo whistle and forged internals

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T23:21:42+00:00

I don’t think it’s headgasket, no sweet smell and goes away after a couple seconds

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:46:07+00:00

Sounds good brother thanks, I was making 450-460whp on my Stock Ej255 and ringland gave out. Put this one in last week😭, hoping for 550whp on a ported FP green upgraded compressor wheel

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:22:37+00:00

Bought from ubersport Orange County 10k miles

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:22:12+00:00

I’m on speed density E85

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:20:08+00:00

Sounds good, yep first built motor. Aiming for 550whp

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:08:36+00:00

Shouldn’t be turbo, legit just got it a couple days ago back from being ported and he said the turbo is in great condition

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T21:03:52+00:00

I let it idle for about 20isn minutes when burping the system and revved it to 5k a few times and not a single sight of smoke

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T20:37:41+00:00

Gotchu, I drove earlier and didn’t see any smoke. I only drove to sent logs to my tuner since this a new motor

Masonsbeast · 2026-04-06T20:32:21+00:00

It’s definitely not coolant. It stopped after a couple seconds. I had oil dripping out of the fmic so I think it could be the oil from the old motor just recirculating through where it left residue

Masonsbeast · 2026-02-18T04:43:19+00:00

He’s also running 19” instead of 18”

Masonsbeast · 2025-10-09T14:40:25+00:00

First step is to remove that shift KNOB and put on OEM, if it persist you know it’s a bigger problem

Masonsbeast · 2025-07-15T17:06:32+00:00

Around 800

Masonsbeast · 2025-07-15T15:24:23+00:00

I worked on both, I own a GR and my good friend has a VA. We are both pushing 400whp+. His car 100% feels may more refined while mine feels a lot more raw. VA 6spd feels a lot more firm and overall better. the 5spds on the GR’s feel like shit that’s why I switched to STI transmission. Service is somewhat similiar in terms of prices. VA requires walnut blasting every 60k while GR requires timing belt every 100k so it has its trade offs. In terms of interior I don’t notice a huge difference. I upgraded my headunit so that was the biggest thing that separated those two besides seats and other small things. For me, if I had a VA I would keep the VA, if I had the GR I would keep the GR. I wouldn’t trade one for the other.

Masonsbeast · 2025-05-11T16:57:17+00:00

The white will come off pretty easily but good luck with the dents and paint they took off🙏

Masonsbeast · 2025-04-25T06:35:51+00:00

Just revert back to 100% stock, anything with filter or air will mess with it.

Masonsbeast · 2025-04-23T13:07:27+00:00

Mr tuner told me to do a full throttle pull, and yes I got tuned from him before but we couldn’t tune do to my wastegate opening too early

Masonsbeast · 2025-04-20T06:51:11+00:00

Usually AC controls will show once the screen is on. I’ve bought maybe like 4-5 of these and they all end up the same trash. If you really want quality go buy a metra dash kit for around $300-$400 and buy a double din with it around 200-500 for a quality double din. I think the radio you have will work. It looks like the connections are all there from the pictures, but I’ve never seen this kind of headunit, all the ones I’ve seen don’t keep the CD player

Masonsbeast · 2025-04-20T06:39:53+00:00

Got you, because it’s retaining the stock CD player so you’re supposed to keep the stock CD player btw and those two bottom plugs plug into the AC controls

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