clawhammer

IMO there is no need to do something as drastic as pulling the head yet. Here's the order in which I'd do things:

1. Get valve adjustment

2. Measure oil consumption

3. Do a compression and leakdown test

Until you do those three things, pulling your head is kind of a waste of time.

jzz30

maybe run a little heavier oil and that will solve it...

Dolemike

Yea, among noticing the increased smoke output I actually switched from the Mobil Syntec Blend to the high mileage Mobil1 oil to see if that helped and I dont think it made much of a difference.

AssassinJN

Sounds like oil is leaking into the cylinder. Not a big issue, just keep feeding her oil. Had the same problem with my PreludeSH and basically the only way to solve the problem would be to rebuild the engine, should be done eventually, but probably wont cause any other real problems (nothing catastrophic at least, just other stuff requiring a rebuild to get rid of).

Dolemike

Oil getting in the cylinders usually = bad seals and rings right?

jzz30

yes. or scored walls. can be either or.

05TurboS2k

MMM post #2.

Dolemike

UPDATE... well the other day a friend of mine was riding with me and I was telling him about how the car smokes in VTEC, so I decide to show him what I was talking about. Well, the car didnt smoke and it hasnt smoked since.

bighead

IIRC, white smoke in boosted applications usually means you're running lean and that's not good.