need some advice my car smoking

[wayneboy06]

Modified by wayneboy06 at 9:51 PM 11/16/2008

[redsx13]

i have a 95 240sx with a s13 redtop sr. and it is smoking only during idle, and it is a bad blanket of smoke when it does. and i would like to say kind of whitish but my coolant seems fine and smoke kinda smells like burnt oil.and it only does it after beeing ran for a while or hard. any thoughts would help

Firstly, you want to run a compression test, its really easy on an sr and if you dont have a buddy with a tester you can buy one at your local auto pars store for under 30 bucks. This will tell you if your rings are burnt.

Its strange the problem only happens at idle, cuz the first thing that i was thinking was turbo. even so, it might be a good idea to pull off you intake pipe and check the play on you turbine (both back an forth and side to side)

Worn out valve guides can also cause you to burn oil, although sr's rarely suffer from this issue.

If its not any of thoes, you may want to rethink the problem, you may just be running rich at idle, it is a very typical issue for sr's. Although i havent seen it produce the amount of smoke to the extent you are describing. and unfortunately theres also a whole mess of components that could cause an sr to run rich.

good luck


Modified by redsx13 at 10:02 PM 11/16/2008