my piece of **** car seems to be smoking an awful lot lately. it seems like the smoke only appears when i hit vtec and its using oil too. i always change my oil on time and check it once a week. im gettign pissd off it uses about a quart and a half for every 500miles if i am horseassing around alot. the car is a 99civic si mostly stock no extensive mods with 82,000 on it someone please point me in the right direction b4 i jump this thing off a cliff

 

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You answered your own question, dicknose.

 

well thanks for being a complete ********** about it it just started doing this and i want to know what else could possibly be the matter with it thanks again for your 2 ******* sense

 

Can you park it over some cardboard in a garage or anything? Check for leaks on the oil pan. Any problems with your MPG? You can check for things like water in the gas tank, maybe need a new fuel filter. Mine was doing something similar, smoked only when i'd get on the gas, and when vtec kicked in. Turned out to be water in the fuel (and water in the oil, and power steering, and God knows where else).

 

nah my maintenace is good i just did plugs wires cap rotor fuel filter i always run a bottle of dry gas when i filll up. im wondering if possibly something in the vtec selonoid is screwed up. i have no idea

 

I guess your next course of action would have to be a compression/leak down test to pinpoint the problem

 

that sucks.

 

well, i have an ls/vtec engine and it smokes alot too. It is a completely different engine but I have a feeling its your egr valve. it may be putting oil in your intake manifold and making it go down into the block and come out the exhaust. Check your throttle body for oil first or you can take off the head to look inside.

 

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Yeah, since we all know that EM1s have EGR valves.

 

You can sell me the car ... haha, How bout valve seals? You can lose oil through those which can be burned, and more noticeable when the valve train is moving alot more rapidly...