Well I have an 88 gxl and ive noticed that if I let the car sit for a few days it will not start due to it flooding out. When ever I start it each morning I see that it smokes a really light blue tinted color for about a minute and then it will stop and almost no smoke will come from the exaust. I just wanted to verify that my oil rings are bad and that everytime I let it sit the leaky oil rings are flooding out my engine? I only have 61k miles.

 

that **** is normal. an oil seal or coolant seal that busted will make you look like like you are driving some kind of james bond car and using the "smoke screen" option.

 

yea ur good

 

Ok whew.... Was having a downer day thinking I might have to spend a good amount of dough to have an engine rebuild soon.

 

Start the car and let the smoke disappear. Let it warm up first then redline it in neutral while stopped and then redline while in gear on the road. Check your rear view mirror both times. If there's still no smoke you're golden. If it does smoke at high rpms then your oil control rings are failing but maybe not gone yet.

 

I also noticed that if i dont let the car warm up and I get up near redline it will smoke a decent amount but once the car warms up it will not smoke at all.

 

I know your not suppose to beat on the engine until its warmed up. Im just pointing this out.

 

yah, its not smart at all to do.

 

believe me.. youll know when your oil seals are done. Mine would leave a cloud of blue smoke. I couldnt even see down my block. Least the motor lasted me to 225k miles.

 

Damn man. Ill be happy if mine lasts 90k.

 

very important to warm up the car. almost flooded my car one day when i left cold all this blue smoke ...i got scared.

but for that couple secs its normal cause it happens to mine '89 GTU non-turbo

 

Your flooding issue is likely due to leaking fuel injectors, fuel washes away the thin film of oil away from the rotor housings and causes low compression. I'd wager if you sent your injectors off to witchhunter performance or another injector service facility for rebuilding your flooding issues would disappear.

 

Hmm... well I may be possibly selling it soon. So we will have to see.