People said during my last 2 runs down the 1/4 mile, u can see puffs of smoke come out when i shift. My mechanic/buddy said my rings are getting older and needs to be replaced. My question is, what happens if i don't replace them? Do i just keep adding oil as needed and itll be fine? Or will something break and do some real damage to the motor?

 

that puff could be cause by many things, first of all what color was the smoke?

 

if the color is white smoke it could be a bad headgasket or burned out piston rings but yea as this guy said it "could be anything" just do some research

 

oh it definitely is the piston rings. i had it checked before my day of fun on the strip. i just think i made it worse.. oh yeah, smoke was white.

 

white smoke is water bro

 

thick white smoke or kinda thin?

 

omg, are you guys serious? fine... have it your way. how about this; THEORETICALLY speaking, IF the pistons rings on A car(not specifically my car) has old piston rings that need to be replaced, and the owner of that car(not specifically ME) keeps on running the car hard without replacing the piston rings, then what would be the outcome? Would anything break if the oil levels are maintained?

 

nothing would break but youd keep burning oil

however, if your rings were bad trust me you would not have to ask anyone

id do a compression and leakdown test and a block tester fluid test

 

YES! thank you for an answer to my question!

On this post i never asked if my rings were bad, i just asked what would happen if i didn't replace them.

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