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Apr 22, 2004 | 03:47 PM

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SILVIA-S14

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Originally posted by China
white smoke usually means you are burning oil, no? are your oil levels good, did you put too much oil in the crank case? how long ago did you do the swap?

china

I guess i saw swap in this post and assumed kat or sr........

didn't really paid any attention to the original post....hardly even skimmed it i think....

thanks for the correction......

RINKU

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Apr 22, 2004 | 04:19 PM

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Lizzle

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Originally posted by Garage Battle
wow, people on this board sometimes.

if ur KA is over 100k or so...heck, if its a KA period, run castrol 20-50 in it.

if it smokes a little from leaving a stop, be proud that u have a healthy KA. twin cam motors do nothing but get better with age as LONG AS U DONT OVERHEAT THEM OR STARVE THEM OF OIL!!! if it smokes a little off the line...meh, who cares, its a KA. its happy smoke.

some of the fastest KA's ive seen smoke and are close to or over 200k miles. Taylor and bill can attest to this. They are vintage meng.

Yeah but mines smokes and burns oil like a champ...

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Apr 22, 2004 | 04:26 PM

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I thought blue smoke was coolant ? --- Headgasket. Oil would be black.. / grey and would be able to smell it.

Apr 22, 2004 | 04:28 PM

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no, water/coolant and oil are both bluish grey, running rich is black

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Apr 22, 2004 | 04:57 PM

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dan

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run 10w-30 for 107,000 miles, just a tad of valve seal smoke. never any leaks

Apr 22, 2004 | 08:02 PM

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Garage Battle

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Quote:

Originally posted by ev04
no, water/coolant and oil are both bluish grey, running rich is black

coolant: white
oil: blue
fuel/rich: black

respect

Apr 23, 2004 | 08:35 AM

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Matt Vassallo

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i run 5w40 synthetic and my car does not burn one drop of oil.

20w50 is too thick for ka's tolerances at extreme levels, but once they're all worn out to all hell, it probably works rather well.

i'm finally happy that my cars putting down 150whp and 160 tq and doesnt smoke one drop

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Apr 23, 2004 | 11:07 AM

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MaxType 240

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Quote:

Originally posted by Garage Battle
coolant: white
oil: blue
fuel/rich: black

respect

OMG, I should've checked this post earlier so it wouldn't take 14 posts to state facts

Anyways, use engine compression restore additives, they really do help all around (Valvoline Max Life or Engine Restore). On my non-smoking 145k KA-T anyways...

Also, I sometimes would burn oil (blue smoke) from the engine bay b/c my crank oil seal was shot after installing the ASP pulley. Installed new one ($5) with the new pulleys and no more leaks.

Jesse

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