So I overheated my engine a bit last week and now it smokes a lot of white smoke when cold. It's definately gas coming out of the exhaust. It's an S5 NA and the needle got to about 3/4ths up. It smokes constantly every morning for about 10 min or until it warms up.

I think I blew my engine, Power feels normal in first but weak in other gears. What did I do?

 

Coolant Seals are most likely shot 9 ways to tuesday...... same thing happened to my FD... Time for a rebuild and a big ol' bridge port!

 

killed an iron not just a seal. i'm beginning to get annoyed with the term "coolant seal failure" because people tend to think they just need a basic overhaul, well you will need to find the failed component first before throwing seals at it.

 

lol...

:AA:

 

Do you have to add coolant on a regular basis?

 

just like a head gasket blows and heads get warped from over heating this is roughly what happend to you.

 

is it me, or is every one blowing their engines this month?

 

Naw, mine went 9 months ago! :0)

 

No I,ve been checking it every other day, and it's perfect, has new coolant too.

 

How come it only smokes when it's cold though? I'm rebuilding my 87 already so I'll just drive this around til the other one is done, then I'll rebuild this one.