i think i have a blown head gasket???
 

i get some smoke once in a while when i drive around and my car gets hot, and also when i take out my spark plugs from left to right on my d15b7 with a t-25 turbo, running FMU and side mount intercooler, all the threads on the far left, not the second threads but the third and fourth threads are all covered in oil... is it a blown head gasket???

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Darker smoke, or white smoke? It sounds like you're getting a lot of blow-by past the pistons. Do a compression test.

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its more of a white smoke.....

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go buy a new headgasket and some headstuds son O0

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you think i should go for a thinner headgasket?? to increase my C/r a tad bit???? and head studs???

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I think you should worry about re-vamping your whole fuel system. Why are you using an FMU and not a chipped ecu? I would just get a regular headgasket and some arp headstuds.

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white smoke could be valve seals, headgasket, turbo blow by, ring blow by, my car does the same ----, and the oil on the plugs could be the valve cover gaskets in the plug holes, im just gonna run my ---- till i have a problem, a little smoke never hurt anyone, and you come to expect some smoke with a boosted honda, i could tear my motor apart and figure out whats causing the smoke, or i could keep driving it untill it causes a problem, cause your gonna have to tear it apart at that point anyway!

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yeah thats what i'm gonna do too ----... little smoke wont hurt

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"a little smoke never hurt anyone, and you come to expect some smoke with a boosted honda"

How many people on hear actually have to deal with their car smoking?

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My car doesnt smoke..... it leaks oil like a bitch... but it doesnt smoke! :-*

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just because it's hmt doesn't mean we have to be lazy and let our ---- smoke and leak

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i have to deal with my pos smoking like a siv cause that piece of ---- up north sold me a turd b18a1 block, o well, planning on new rings,studs,and a hg so i hope it fixes all my probs.

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if your getting a lot of oil in the spark plug gulleys it might just be a bad valve cover gasket, the same thing happened to me, so you might want to try changing that real quick and see what happens. :y

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when my car smokes, its just white smoke out the exhaust, and only after its fully warmed, then i rip on it hard, it will smoke sometimes on decel, and after i stop at a light it will smoke a little 'till i get going again, i thought it was my HG at first, but then i realized theres a tiny bit of oil accumulation on the head that looks to be seeping from the exhaust mani. , which makes me think my problem is either valve seals, or my crappy ass "remanufactured garett" turbo i got off ebay for $300 has leaky seals, either way why would i do anything about those problems untill it gets so bad it needs to be done? im gonna have to pull the head off and have the machine shop do some work in which case i'll build the whole motor, thats not justified by a little smoke, or replace the turbo with a more expensive unit, which isnt justified by a little smoke either.... :-\