Hmm

About how many miles before the head gasket goes in our cars?? fellow 99 cavalier peeps...

I am getting an increasing ammount of White Smoke in my exhaust... It appears when I am coming to a stop or leaving a stop. Maybe it's just because the car isn't moving so it isn't accumulating. I really hope it's not my head gasket.... :( I hope it's just like... oil burning in the exhaust or something....

what about the header wrap? you think it could trap moisture in? ....why the hell would it be continuous.... nevermind, please someone comment I am out of ideas!...

you pretty sure it's not oil (blue/white smoke)?

White smoke itsn't necessarily a bad sign, it depends on how much. Is your antifreeze dropping? Try holding your hand or a paper towel or something up to the tailpipe - you should be able to tell fairly easily if it's antifreeze. It'll smell like someone's cooking up some flapjacks.

yeah antifreeze will have a "sweet" smell to it.

I think I might have found something...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/Derk_eliso/DSCI1392.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/Derk_eliso/DSCI1393.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/Derk_eliso/DSCI1394.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a386/Derk_eliso/DSCI1395.jpg

Shitty... could this cause the smoke or do u think it's something else like my head gasket...

time to break out the old trusty compression tester.

How many miles on her?

Just broke 100,000 :)

I don't have a compression tester lol

you can also check your spark plugs to see whats going on.....

So, you have an exhaust manifold that has a crack in it, and a smoke problem. I don't know what the solution is, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the cause was pushing the grandma car way too hard.

negative

I baby my baby... I've had problems with the intake pipes coming out of their couplers under boost, so I try to stay out of boost... until I can get some decent intercooler pipes