Damn! I have no clue... I was thinking you had said before that your car was stinky so I figured something triggered it to run rich all of the sudden and when I had rich running issues on a piston car, I would get gray/black smoke on hard accel and high rpm decel....



I hope its not your oil control rings https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png

with my luck, it probably is...it has well over 144k miles on the car, and I drive it hard



I've kinda got that sinking feeling in my stomach.

i also think oil control rings, it should run forever that way my 86 base went from 75-118k burning oil like that



mike

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i also think oil control rings, it should run forever that way my 86 base went from 75-118k burning oil like that



mike [/quote]

good to know. I'll consider it a self-changing oil system.





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i also think oil control rings, it should run forever that way my 86 base went from 75-118k burning oil like that



mike [/quote]

wait a second...so when do I know it's gone on too long like that? when is it time for a rebuild?

when you can no longer tolerate constantly adding oil or constantly smoking...

I think I just might start collecting parts to do a kickass n/a...very, very, slowly



maybe collect all the housings and such over 1 or 2 years....



it would be perfect to use my income tax refund, but we decided that we're going to redo some flooring in the house...decisions, decisions...

sell your body for money





im sure you can find plenty of nice women in their 40s that need some side action

what? your mother? just kidding!!