Car seems to have blown headgasket, but all signs are not there.

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Old Sep 28, 2005 | 09:18 PM
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Default Car seems to have blown headgasket, but all signs are not there.

I rebuilt my engine about 1,000 miles ago, but noticed this at around 400 miles on the engine, yes, i ran the **** out of my engine as soon as i built it. Usually, the car pours smoke, it's white, doesn't really seem to have much of a smell, i'm losing coolant. My oil has no coolant in it, i ran the car for about 50 miles with actual coolant in the car (i was running just water for awhile). I pulled the plugs and they're all about the same, each shows my car is running rich, white tip, black base. I don't believe the smoking is simply it running rich, at idle it shows 15s, around 10 vacuum, it gets into 13s and 12s, so this would be why the plugs look like this, full boost is in 10-11s (depending what pressure it hits).

I'm hoping the smoke is my turbo spitting some oil, it quit for awhile when i moved my restrictor to the back of the block insted of before the turbo, maybe a coincidence because it's intermittant.

I pressure tested the system and took care of all the coolant leaks i could find, the pressure tester's gauge is broken. I removed my plugs before testing and pumped it up, let it sit for about an hour, laid a papertowel over my plug holes and turned it over, no water on the paper towel.
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