No - not my exhaust on full throttle but an actual smoke machine tool

Whilst getting my PAS sensor changed, a smoke machine designed to find boost leaks / etc arrived at the garage so of course my car was chosen as a tester....

Pumped in near the inlet manifold and capped off in the air filter, the smoke machine showed I had quite a few leaky points on the inlet system (irrelevant as a vacuum, not pressured) but more importantly showed my map sensor was not sealing well on my intercooler pipework. Smoke at just half a PSI was coming out around the metal/plastic joining area. So it was duly removed and the seal made good again. If smoke was coming out at half a PSI I wonder what it was like at 30+ PSI under boost....? :wonder:

The machine was a great little tool. Essentially just burned a reservoir of oil in small quantities, and using air from a compressor, duly pumped this around the pipework. Could be used for vacuum, exhausts, basically anything with a pipe that could leak. Impressed.

Sound cool, and a good piece of kit

Ben @ Shark Performance used one of these on mine when we were trying to find a boost leak.

Like you said, cracking bit of kit