Ok, here is my story.

D16Z6 Block, D15B7 Head, D16Z6 Headgasket... oil is seeping form around head on the front driver side and i have smoke coming out the exhaust, vac lines and radiator...

I think its a bad head gasket... No milky looking oil.. no oil in coolant..

 

what color is the smoke out the exhaust?

 

maybe you used wrong headgasket?

 

blue and i think the guy who did the head job did use the wrong head gasket.. he should have used a d15b7 head gasket..

 

here is a couple of pics.

 

Blue smoke means your burning oil...piston rings or valve stem seals or crank case blow-by.

 

crank case blow-by... sounds about right.. when i have the vacuum hose form the back of the block plugged up to the intake manifold the car pulls heavy vacuum and idle surges real bad.

 

aight.. so i have oil in cyl 1 on the exhaust.. bad head gasket it is..

 

aight, so here is my update. i pulled the head off my block tonight and there is oil sittin on top of cyl 1 piston and a lil oil sitting on top of cyl 2 piston. cyl 1 vavles and spark plug is covered in oil. The motor also does in fact have a d16z6 head gasket which is wrong. It should be using a d15b7 head gasket. Now i am checking my valves to make sure i have no leak by there.

 

plugs covered in oil how?
the top part or bottom?

If they didnt replace the plug seals on the valve cover, oil will get in the top of the plugs too.

 

bottom of plugs only.

 

only cly 1 plug is covered in oil

 

my piston rings are shot. it is crank case blow by.

 

It makes no difference, they're the same gasket other than the Z6 is 3 layer steel and the D15B7/D15B8 gasket is graphite/composite (read crappy)

 

your completely wrong.. i am sorry but you are.. i did a match to the head gaskets this am and the b7 and z6 gasket are different.

 

^ um...I have a d15b7...and Im running a z6 headgasket that has over 100k miles on it, without any leaks.

Different perhaps, will it work though? I can attest to 100k miles. The z6 is a reco'd upgrade b/c the b7 headgasket was the weakest link in the motor.

 

I'm not wrong, guys have been using Z6/Y8 head gaskets in D15B7/D15B8/D16A6 engines for years. It's possible whoever put the engine in used one for an '01 - '05 Civic (D17A1/D17A2) which may or may not be different.