starchland

The best way I can put it is if you were walking down the street and met a pretty girl and then randomly out of nowhere you had a giant fart come out and had absolutely no control of

Hfreak

Hilarious analogy! But I agree.

zeroptzero

Hilarious analogy! But I agree.
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That would be embarrassing.

Hfreak

Thanks Nick, I was hoping for something a little easier to fix. Will live with it for now.

zeroptzero

Try a different oil. The Penz Plat Euro formula has some better specs in 5w30 but I'm not sure where you can get that in Canada. Changing oil brands is worth a try unless you prefer to stick with Penz. Plat, nothing to lose IMO.

deanob

Signs point to valve seals. Just curious, whens the last time you did a valve adjustment?

You can try changing the oil weights but I wouldn't count on it.

Hfreak

The PO had the valves adjusted when he had the car but I am planning on checking it soon.

I can go with a different oil next time but I only have about 250kms on this oil. Thanks for the suggestions.

deanob

Just save it for the wifes car ^__^

zeroptzero

When I was at the Dragon last year I was getting greyish white smoke out the pipes with my HFC in certain conditions, mostly where I was letting off the gas and getting back into the throttle a few seconds later. No hint of blue, and no oil burning smell to it. I'm pretty sure it is just unburned hydrocarbons and condensation mixing in the exhaust. It was more grey than white, and I'm not burning any coolant. I was running Red Line 5w30 oil. After returning from the Dragon I sold my HFC and I ran the oem cat. converter for all of 2015, and I never seen the smoke again. When you run test pipes and HFC's you are going to notice more exhaust effluent of various colour tones and odours.

I'm back to running a HFC, but I haven't driven it much to really notice any smoke yet, plus my HFC is brand new. Also, I now run Red Line 5w40.

If you think your valve seals are worn you might want to try a high mileage oil, every oil manufacturer has one if you prefer to stick with Penz. High mileage oils have additional seal conditioners to help plump seals, which may help reduce oil consumption at the seals. Worth a try, and you should try to run it for a couple of oil change intervals minimum and see if there is any difference.

If you aren't averse to additives, you can also run an upper cylinder lubricant in the fuel. The lube sprays on the valves with the fuel and lubes the valves and seals as gasoline doesn't have lubricating properties. A small maintenance dose of Red Line fuel injector cleaner has an upper cylinder lubricant built into it which is my preference, one bottle can last 10 fuel fills as you just use a small amount. Lucas makes an UCL too.

Just my 2 pennies.

Hfreak

Maybe I wasn't driving the car enough last year but I have not seen any smoke from the exhaust at all this summer. Got to love problems that fix themselves.