Re: Impending turbo doom, or just a clogged oil return line causing whine and smoke?
From the looks of your compressor inlet picture, it looks as if your blades are rubbing the inlet. You can see the scalloped areas in each blade where they run closely by the inlet walls. Your bearing is probably shot and the shaft has a lot of play in it. The exhaust pressure could be loading up the shaft causing it to wobble a bit and leak oil into the exhaust. When the engine is off, it still turns freely. Get someone to lay real eyes on it instead of taking my word for it though.
Brian
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