Losing coolant

[DM_Rok]

I have a 91 /22re/ 2wd / MT : approx. 6000 miles since I rebuilt the engine last year.
I am losing coolant into the engine somewhere. No mixing of oil and coolant anywhere. On a hot restart, the engine misfires for the first 10 seconds or so and blows a cloud of white smoke out the tailpipe. After shutting the engine down when it is hot, I can hear steam escaping somewhere in the general area of the intake manifold, and when I remove the intake pipe and look into the throttle bore, the intake chamber is full of steam. I thought it was the Aux. Air Valve leaking coolant into the intake, so I bypassed and blocked it off, but the problem still exists. Any ideas on the source of this leak?

[KimMG]

Possible blown head gasket. Have you done a compression test?

[jake jake]

1. check head gasket

2. sometimes the coolant could be faling on a hot engine part and evaporating and that is why its hard to spot where its leaking

3. maybe try Bars stop leak --it might seal the leak