west

At this point i'm hoping it is a warped head or blown gasket. Would really love to get the heads worked on by a performance shop anyways and if I can find a practical excuse for aligning the labor of heads removal/installation then all the best.

balbs

Subscribed. Please post an update. Although my car is a 6-cyl. (N52) I don't know if I have extra smoke or just imagining it.

west

OK guys. Here is an update. I dropped over to my performance shop this morning so they could take look at the issue. They told me that if there was a breach in the coolant system, one that would cause coolant to find it's way in to the combustion chamber, that the exhaust gasses may also find their way in to the coolant system. Exhaust gasses contain hydrocarbons that can be measured with a gas analyzer. They simply fired up the gas analyzer and looked for hydrocarbons in the coolant system but the readings we got claimed that no measurable amount of hydrocarbons existed in the coolant system.

As a side note: Below is a document I found online that talks a little about exhaust gasses and where they come from.

http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/h56.pdf

As per that document it might be that the engine is super healthy (high CO2 and high water vapor).

balbs

So that's good! Are they going to do other tests?