93 prelude Si H23 - Smoking Exhaust... What's Wrong???
09-04-2003, 09:50 AM
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93 prelude Si H23 - Smoking Exhaust... What's Wrong???
I just bought a 93 Si lude a few months ago. I checked the exhaust at the time that I purchased it and there was absolutely no smoke at all whatsoever. The car has about 160K on it. Well, just in a couple months time, the car began smoking out the exhaust. There is a big puff of blue-ish smoke when I start the car, and it smokes very slightly when at idle, but when I am driving and I rev it up and shift gears, there's always a big cloud of smoke behind me. I wouldn't think that the rings would have gone bad just in a couple of months, so I am figuring it is something else. Is it possible that there is something else wrong here that I could fix other than putting new rings in the pistons?
09-04-2003, 05:38 PM
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With 160,000 your rings can pretty much go at any time. Just cause its been a few months doesnt mean that something like that cant go wrong. Do a compresion test and compare your findings to factory specs.