white smoke in exhaust
 

what could cause white smoke in my exhaust and everywhere else besides a head gasket my car is a 96 f22b1 vtec motor that is turboed the car started making whisiling noises then started to create lots of white smoke. is it a heade gasket. the car still runs fine not choppy or anything but just white smoke starts up fine to

Re: white smoke in exhaust
 

White smoke is caused by engine coolant being added to the combustion process. A leaking head gasket doesn't always cause rough running though. It depends on the amount of coolant that is being introduced to the combustion process.

Aside from the head gasket coolant could also enter through a crack in the cylinder head intake port or combustion chamber. Or a crack in a cylinder walls. It could also be a crack in the exhaust port of the head. Have you done any cylinder head porting? This will cause white smoke and it won't interact with how your engine runs as much.

Re: white smoke in exhaust
 

no i havent i am going to take the turbo set up of and get a head gasket replacement kit. is there anything you would recomend doing i am going to try to do it my self and get a repair manual. i dont have alot of money to go to the machanic and i need my car running so i need to fix it any help would be great

Re: white smoke in exhaust
 

white smoke is water being turned into steam. Does it smell sweet? if so you are FUBAR

Re: white smoke in exhaust
 

If the "smoke" you're getting smells sweet, then yes, you're most likely burning coolant in a combustion chamber.
Turbo installation and now you've got smoke from the exhaust..... I'd almost wager that you've damaged a piston and the oil control ring can't control properly.

I'd perform a compression test to better determine what's afoot.

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