Ive been getting a little smoke out of my exhaust, nothing crazy. and a lot out of my valve cover breather. Just did a cold compression test and on my V6, front bank was
cyl #1-55,60,65
cyl#2-55,60,60
cyl#3-60,65,90

rear bank...
cyl#160,180,220
cyl#165,180,210
cyl#165,185,220

My plugs on my front bank looked normal, except not the iridium tip but the part right over the tip was kinda whiteish? Anyway after i added some oil to each cylinder in the front to re-check and see if my comppression came up here are the results

cyl #1-60,65,80
cyl#2-65,75,90
cyl#3-60,65,80

any suggestions on what could be going on? here is my setup...

03 accord v6 6spd
garrett GT35r
Emanage ultimate
tial wastegate
turbo xs bov
no internal work done

Thanks

 

what color smoke?
smell sweet?


it sounds like a hg

 

sometimes it smells sweet, esp. the breather smoke. color is kinda light white, if I look hard enough it will look blue... I'm a noob. try to do the best I can.

Car does not run hot at all.

 

ya i would put my money on the HG
sounds to be the problem

 

why do you think its the ringlands? Just trying to learn something.

 

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Alright just pulled my coolant and seems to be quite a bit of oil in it??? Is this head lift? or the gasket? Thanks.

 

does it only smoke in boost?
if i were you i would get head studs and a new gasket

 

cool, appreciate all the feedback. I looked at my headgasket and couldn't really tell if it had been breached so I will be swapping it for another head that has been checked at the local machine shop just for comfort. Also will be installing OEM new headgaskets.

ARP doesn't nor any other company that I know of makes a set of headstuds for my car. I need a machine shop to get the exact specs for a custom bolt by ARP.
Sucks, nobody makes the headgaskets either! Gotta stick w/stock.

is there anything I can do to my head gasket or my head w/the current equipment available to help prevent this? BTW, I also got all new Headbolts from Honda.

 

Awesome, learn something new everyday. Thanks again. I'll report back after I get done tomorrow. see how she runs.

 

If you blew a headgasket then more than likely something is jacked up with the tune. If your afr's are fine then look into pulling some timing.

 

well, I am only running 9-9.5psi and 10° of timing retard? Is that not enough?Thanks again.

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