Just took it for a country road drive. Wasn't hard on it just in case the new turbo was leaking oil. Gave it around 3/4 throttle, felt peppy but not that much quicker than my buddies stock ALH and this is a VNT-17 and Malone Stage 4 setup now......kind of disappointed in it so far. Anyway.....
For one, at 11ish PM on a sunday night, country roads....I can't believe how many people I came across. Felt like a heel because I literally fogged over the northwest corner of my county I live in with the car. BUT......after about 5 miles or so of driving, it simply went away. I could see no smoke behind me all of a sudden. First thought was "well, how soon til the motor siezes?" Fortunately, that wasn't the case.
Got back home, in the garage, and it was still giving me some light idle smoke that I could see in the lights, most likely residual at this point that will simply take more time to burn off. So things are looking MUCH better. Best news is that there are ZERO fault indicator lights or anything showing on VCDS at this point. Everything seems to be in working order mechanically, which is pleasing given the mileage on the car.
BUT wait, there's more! On the drive, my blower motor decided to die. Go figure. Minor thing though, and my current pick and pull has a couple of well kept MKIV's that I can pull one from.
For now, I have two runners in the garage at least.