From what I hear Synapse is good with subarus. Morgan knows his stuff and I have nothing bad to say about them what so ever. I am unfortunately going to be very tied up this season into spring with some long term projects and there after will be 100% into chassis production for the kit cars.
White smoke puff this time of year is not uncommon with temperature differentiation, however substintial sustained white smoke would be cause for concern. Likely a head gasket, which again Synapse would definitely take care of you. White smoke coming from turbocharger itself is odd unless a coolant leak in the vicinity is getting onto the housings. Collant flows through the CHRA and wouldn’t end up in the housings without a breach in the casting. Smoke coming from a leak in the hot side somewhere would be more likely, in which case it’s likely to be the same smoke emulating from the tailpipe.
Online diag is obviously speculative, so best be would be to head to your shop of choice to have a look.
As far as the turbocharger goes, if you’d like me to inspect and/or rebuild it that can be done. I’d prefer if you could have it removed and dropped off at the machine shop. I’m going to be very very busy here and really won’t have the time to remove it from the car myself.
So to sum it up, give Morgan an shout and I’m sure he can give it a look over and if need be have them drop/ship the turbocharger to the machine shop(hunts) or I could pick up from there if need be.
It’s only a brief puff upon start-up, if any at all. I’m leaning towards bad turbo seal from what people have been throwing my way, but i’ll definitely have Morgan take a look at it since he is local. :thumbup
I will see what he say’s and if need be have him drop the turbo, and i’ll bring it over. JW, but how quickly do you think you get her done if dropped off?