Blown turbo or blown head gasket?

[Jay Whitely]

> When I blew up my S4 turbos last year on the drivers
> side band the exhaust
> wheel completly broke off and went into the
> cat....

Yeah, I took the turbo to a shop and the guy took it
apart in front of me. The turbine wheel broke off of
the shaft and the compressor wheel got chewed up from
rubbing against the diffuser of the compressor
housing.

it was blowing oil into
> the cat and blowing the nastiest blue white smoke U
> ever seen.

***This smoke is not very blue, though. It is more
white than blue, but it does not smell like coolant at
all.

 he will need a new cat most
> likely.

***He has a test pipe right now.

Thanks for the advice,

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Jay Whitely
Tampa, FL
1996 200SX SE-R
GTi-R powered, F-MAX Stage 2