Alright we'll my buddy as a 92 Civic with a 01 gsr swap and was blowing blue smoke out of his tailpipe. So i changed his headgasket,tb, & waterpump since it was due for anyways and after putting everything back together his car was still smoking. Its been a week now since i had it all back together but im out of ideas of what can be causing all the smoke. I got the head resurfaced before assembling it and it now has arp headstuds torqued down to 80lbs with arp moly lube and no oil leak. i have yet to do a compression test but im on vacation in norcal right now so just trying to gather info and another thing the car runs strong and idles fine. any idea would be great. Thanks guys

 

piston rings ...or valve seals

 

thats what im thinking but im hoping its not...he's only had the swap for less then 5 months

 

its probably rings but a compresson and leak down test will tell you more. gl with the fix

 

hopefully it's just the valve guide seals, annoying to change but much better scenario then bad rings.

 

yeah rings or valve seals x2 on hopefully its the vavle seals easier fix

 

kool thanks or the replies.

 

ringy dingys! i hate to burst your bubbles, but with that much smoke coming out i dont think it will be just the valve seals.

 

smokes only come out when we floor it and when you step on the clutch accelerating or deccelerating

 

piston rings bad, friend has the same problem

 

what a biotch...my buddy will love me for telling him horror stories about his motor!

 

I take it he was beatin on it pretty hard. Do a compression test and post results. Maybe we can help more then.

 

nope..never really slammed on it..maybe once or twice..maybe the previous owner did

 

Do the compression test.

 

Blue smoke is usually Piston rings, if u get on it real hard, a lot of VTEC cars will puff out Black smoke when getting on it, which is fuel.

 

did a compression test and numbers came out good. cylinder 1-4 210 220 220 210..thinking its valve stem seals