It Runs!!

I finally got my 2.3 running. The car's far from road-worthy, but at least the engine runs. It runs, idles, and revs, oh, and smokes horribly bad. It's all white smoke and since I don't have my downpipe on yet it's going everywhere, but I had someone check and it is comming from the exhaust.

The block was honed, cylinder walls oiled, and new rings and bearings installed. It's been started and ran for maybe a total of 1 minute, through multiple cycles. I can't let it run too long because of how smokey the garage gets. I'm assuming that all the oil has burned off the walls, should it still smoke until the rings seat? First new engine in a while and the first one I blew a hole in side of the block because I put the rods in backwards . I know the pistons and rods went in right on this block, I just have an embedded fear of something happening.

I'll get the exhaust on here shortly, then I can let it run a little longer and see if it clears it out. I don't have the cooling system hooked up yet so I don't want to let the block get warm and over heat.

It's a rebuilt T3. It was leaking from the oil feed and oil return lines. I need to redo thoes.

There's no coolant in the block. I just started it up a few times to finally hear her run. My exhaust flange had some oil in it . I think it's because my oil return line has a bend in it, and/or is too small. I need to make another one that's a little straighter and bigger. What size should the line be?

I took the turbo apart and had a turbo shop look at the center section and shaft. The center section needs honed and the shaft ground. He said the guy who "rebuilt" it before probably just sandblasted everything to make it look rebuilt. But I got it from someone who got it from someone. Anyways, yeah, between the shaft play and small oil return line I had tons of oil in both the compressor housing and exhaust housing.

I'm having the Diesel shop hone the center section 5/1000" over and get new bearings, and their sending the shaft to be regound and possibly ballanced to a shop in NY. I should get the shaft back in 2 weeks. I'm going to get an N/A exhaust manifold for now so I can tune this thing. There's no boost in idle so this shouldn't cause an issue.