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Wow, it looks great, the color is awesome, and that front bumper is cool, why didn't the U.S. get those bumpers? Meh, oh well, good job on the car!

Is that a MazdaSpeed front bumper?

Nope, that is a standard JSpec front bumper that came on some Mazda MX3 sold in Japan.

Well Guys,<p>I think I have blown my turbo, I am getting some white smoke coming out the exhaust when I am on boost and the car isnt pulling as strong as before. <p>Guess that happens when you run 9psi on an old IHI-VJ14 turbo <p>In terms of replacements, should I look at just getting another IHI VJ14 or would a VJ11 or VJ20 be a better buy.<p>Please advise.

White smoke usally means your burning coolant. If It was your turbo it would more than likely be blue smoke from leaky oil seals around the floating bearings. The other thing that usually happens when a turbo is going down hill is it gets laggier, less max boost pressure, & it starts getting noisy (like a BIG turbo). I'd recommend you check out your compression & make sure it's not your head gasket going bad!

Thanks for the info. <p>I do believe it is the turbo since it has gotten much noisier and there is much more lag. Also it is only boosting up to about 7psi these days.<p>The coolant level is actually fine which makes be believe that it is not the head gasket.<p>I will double check if the smoke is indeed white or blue.

check your oil pressure at the feed line of the turbo. If it´s too high you will blow the retainers on almost any turbo! Also check that your return line is above the oil level!