I honestly don't know where to go or look for help. Typing in anything related to headgasket has not given me any good results or anything to result with.
My issue is this, after the car warming up, I have smoke, its not blue but its not heavily white. It just has a small tint of white, more grey than pure white. Initially the car was purely stock and the same smoke came from the turbo's hot side and form the radiator and figured it was from the stock oil cooler in the radiator. Ended up getting a new turbo, changed the spark plugs, changed the intake, exhaust, headers, valve covers, and brand new gaskets all the way around with the parts that needed them. Now after warming her up with the new turbo as well as the pte remote oil filter (turbo saver), I still have the same color smoke coming from the radiator. Seems like its from the coolant. No milkshake whatsoever. The oil doesn't even look bad, and just recently changed it today with the pte turbo saver.
What I did read was to try the gm sealant tabs and see how that works. I have not done a compression test, that will be next. She's got 100k miles and seems to me like the info I got about her when purchasing back in August was false and the seller just flipped it real quick, knowing it had trouble.
Also read about pressure testing the radiator, but I don't think I need to be the coolant is being burned not leaking. Like I said, the smoke is not thick at all, and its more of a light grey than pure white. Definitely not blue. The temperature stays at a steady 170 degrees with the 160 degrees thermostat.
I've almost thrown in the towel, and on the verge of doing so. And by throwing the towel, I mean going to Jim Dunn and having him fix this car and bring it back to its glory. When I took her out for a drive the car wouldn't even want to go until after a few seconds of pressing the gas pedal. Almost as if it had to build up momentum to move. Now the weird thing is, when I first got the car right after buying it, she responded very well to applying the gas pedal and putting her into drive whereas the idle was shit then. Now its the opposite. The idle is perfect, from what I can tell by ear, and the drive is shit. Complete turd.
Is there anyone that could come by and inspect it? If not, I will then just call Jim Dunn and figure something out with him.
My issue is this, after the car warming up, I have smoke, its not blue but its not heavily white. It just has a small tint of white, more grey than pure white. Initially the car was purely stock and the same smoke came from the turbo's hot side and form the radiator and figured it was from the stock oil cooler in the radiator. Ended up getting a new turbo, changed the spark plugs, changed the intake, exhaust, headers, valve covers, and brand new gaskets all the way around with the parts that needed them. Now after warming her up with the new turbo as well as the pte remote oil filter (turbo saver), I still have the same color smoke coming from the radiator. Seems like its from the coolant. No milkshake whatsoever. The oil doesn't even look bad, and just recently changed it today with the pte turbo saver.
What I did read was to try the gm sealant tabs and see how that works. I have not done a compression test, that will be next. She's got 100k miles and seems to me like the info I got about her when purchasing back in August was false and the seller just flipped it real quick, knowing it had trouble.
Also read about pressure testing the radiator, but I don't think I need to be the coolant is being burned not leaking. Like I said, the smoke is not thick at all, and its more of a light grey than pure white. Definitely not blue. The temperature stays at a steady 170 degrees with the 160 degrees thermostat.
I've almost thrown in the towel, and on the verge of doing so. And by throwing the towel, I mean going to Jim Dunn and having him fix this car and bring it back to its glory. When I took her out for a drive the car wouldn't even want to go until after a few seconds of pressing the gas pedal. Almost as if it had to build up momentum to move. Now the weird thing is, when I first got the car right after buying it, she responded very well to applying the gas pedal and putting her into drive whereas the idle was shit then. Now its the opposite. The idle is perfect, from what I can tell by ear, and the drive is shit. Complete turd.
Is there anyone that could come by and inspect it? If not, I will then just call Jim Dunn and figure something out with him.
