question about burning oil

how would you know if your piston rings are bad or you need new valve seals, for my 93 teq ls? im seeing little black specs on my bumper(on a wht teq) and my friend was following me the other day and said that he can smell my car, but when im racing my car he can only see a puff of smoke whn i shift. is that bad or is it cause i have 180k miles?

check your coolant. is it low? if so, is your oil cloudy looking? might be head gasket. when you first start it up on a normal day, is there white smoke coming form it. W/o doing a compression test you can see if the head gasket is bad.

run it for a minute. then turn it off, let it sit for 5 min. then remove one spark wire and plug and turn ov er the engine. if water come flying out, your head gasket is toast. try this with 3 or 4 of the sparkes waiting 5 mintes between. beyaond that, i'm not sure what esle it might be. I just have a lot of experience dealing with Head gaskets. good luck

hmm good suggestion. ill give that a try. about a couple of months ago i was changing out my spark plugs and i accidentally dropped a nut down in one of my chambers. i kinda ghetto'd my engine to get the nut out of chamber 3. i lifted the head just enough for my girlfriend to stick her skinny hand down there and then put the head back. later i found out that i was so lucky that i did not blow my head gasket. and was told that anytime that you take off your head that you are supposed to replace the head gasket. but i will give that one a shot. thnx

w/ 180K I would port and polish the head, and get the a rebuild kit from autozone. and a hayse manuel with all the torque specs for how tight the nuts should be.

i don't mean to sound newb here but, when you mean rebuild kit you mean engine kit? and how much does a port polish usually cost?

rebuild/engine kit about $500 depends on how much you want done to the head. a mild job w/ valves is about $400(+10hp) a heave job runs about $1500(+35hp)