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Should I be concerned?

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Been seeing a lot of videos recently of blown turbos with decent amount of exhaust coming out of the tips. Changed my exhaust hiflow turbo back. Could just be the first cold day (north east) but here's what I'm looking at.
 


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So with a combustion process water is formed. On a cold day from a exhaust it would look like the picture shown. Don't worry, enjoy your car.
 


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Been seeing a lot of videos recently of blown turbos with decent amount of exhaust coming out of the tips. Changed my exhaust hiflow turbo back. Could just be the first cold day (north east) but here's what I'm looking at.
if this is on cold start. That's most likely condensation. Especially if you just replaced the exhaust. I wouldn't be concerned unless your exhaust is still smoking after like a 30-40 min drive
 


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This is nothing but steam/moisture from the cool morning start, it will burn away however, if later in the day, get someone to follow you to check the exhaust tail pipes then.. there's a difference between white smoke, black smoke and steam smoke.
 


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On a cold idle, you should see the amount of that coming out of my sport bike's 0.6L engine. Puts the cars with much larger engines to shame. Totally normal. Nothing to worry about.

I did have car with a cracked head and leaky gasket. (the infamous bi-metal engines) The differences were, cold starts were a little rough and you'd smell the coolant. Oh my, don't shut it off before it had a chance to warm up more... it really hated that.
 




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