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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 12:56 PM
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I blew my engine about 6 months a go and i replaced it with a japanese 2jzge. But now when the car is cool and you turn it on it smokes a mixture of gas and coolant for about 2 min till the engine warms up and then its fine. I took it to a mechanic and performed a radiator compression test and cylinder compression test and every thing was perfect. they told me it could be from intake gaskets and i replaced all the intake gaskets and it still does the same thing.
if anyone has a solution to this problem i would appreciate your help.
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 01:00 PM
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gas and coolant?

leakdown tell you more than a compression i just learned, but they're more expensive, and if all the compressions were good, i'd say u're fine there anyways. . .

if you mean oil instead of coolant, on startup it's valve seals.

something taking a while till heat up sounds more like a cat problem or some expanding seal(but all the stuff will expand with increased heat).





wait, you do mean smoke out of the exhaust, right?
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 01:21 PM
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yeah smokes out of the exhust.
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 03:43 PM
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i'm baffled. . .sry.
maybe a tiny hole in the block, and once the coolant is flowing is just goes past it????
honestly iunno.
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 04:33 PM
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yeah, i really dont know wats going on. some one told me there might be a small crack on the head.
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 05:09 PM
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How did you blow your engine? (I'm curious as to what causes the 2jz's to go out)
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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 07:10 PM
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It's A bad ecu. Trust me. Swap ecu's with an ecu from a problem free car. It's the ecu stupid

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Old Aug 5, 2006 | 09:51 PM
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How are you determining that the smoke is gas and coolant? What color is the smoke? What are your specs? It will help us help you if we get a better idea of your setup.

Originally Posted by ConSynX
if you mean oil instead of coolant, on startup it's valve seals.
It does sound like valve stem seals if it goes away after the car warms up. Its a common problem with 2jz's.
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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 02:53 AM
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well i blew the engine because i was boosting too high 20 psi and too much milage. the color of the smoke is whitish gray. and a mechanic told me its a mixture of gas and coolant.
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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 09:11 AM
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well screw the gas part, rich is better than lean

but the coolant part is still just strange. small crack seems to be only thing making sense. There's no coolant in your oil?
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no there is no coolant mixed in the oil
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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 01:18 PM
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ok, i just opened the oil cap and the oil smells like gas. the smoke that comes out of the exhust is white, but it smells like gas mixed with something else.
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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by nasc300
It's A bad ecu. Trust me. Swap ecu's with an ecu from a problem free car. It's the ecu stupid
Just keep ignoring me

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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 01:44 PM
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https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ht=white+smoke
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Old Aug 6, 2006 | 02:41 PM
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White smoke is usually a blown head gasket, black smoke is burning oil and usually bad rings, yellow and or pink smoke and your really screwed?

Could be tuning and or bad ECU reads. Maybe something else. tough too say...Good luck......
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