what coloris the smoke if it has a thick white tint toit it could be a simple head gasket. the head gasket depending on where it starts leaking can aloow both oil and antifreeze to leak into the cyliders

 

i believe if the hg was startin to go he would c it on his temperature gauge.....correct me if im wrong?

 

its like a light white tint, and it smells, its got a mix of black to, its strange

 

yeah my temp is perfect, never bad

 

hmm my itr ate up about half a quart every 2k miles or so but i think it also depends on what oil you use, i used to use mobil one and i heard they drink that up like us drinking water, so idk

 

compresion test and leak down are the best option but there is things you can do, get a manual vaccum pump, find a vacum port( use the brake booster one, its safe) connect the vaccum and read at idle and different rpm range, that gonna give you and idea of ur engine, also you should have a port in your valve cover(not pcv valve), disconnect the hose, put ur finger covering the hole and wait a few with the engine at idle if went you put off ur finger its a lot of gas pressure or a while smoke ur rings are fried, hope this can help you

 

well the temp will only go up when the coolant level goes down ..... so i dontknow it could be a lot of things but your rings shouldnt be bad unless you have like over 200000 miles on the motor

 

i had a prelude h22 that i had like 275000 miles on the original motor and my rings never went out that back it burned oil but not that bad so like the guy said go have a leak down test done

 

the motor has never had a valve adjustment either...could this help at all?