blackwizard22

The car is spewing white smoke fromt he exhaust:

http://media.putfile.com/Cam-Camaro2

Any ideas?
Its my brothers car and im not home to look at it. Looks like oil to me, be from where?

Also making a ticking noise:

http://media.putfile.com/Cam-Camaro1

ideas?

Paul Bell

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I can't view your videos but...

Does the white smoke have a sweet odor of antifreeze? Check your oil and radiator levels. There may be too much reading on the oil stick or the coolant may look dark & foamy.

If so, blown head gasket. Don't run that engine!

How many miles on this motor?

blackwizard22

its not mine, im away at school and its my noncar savvy brother. He cant describe how it smells. I think its a bad intake gasket. My guess is the coolant is burning out and the rockers are ticking because the coolant is washing the oil off them.

blackwizard22

motor has 97k on it

the_merv

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Head Gasket..

94strokedz

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head gasket, coolant, shut her down!

FANTA-Z

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Yeah its a head gasket. The intake gasket wont spew smoke such as your describing since its a dry setup.

blackwizard22

Update: Got home and looked at the car. Bad ticking noise probably due to the following condition; Pulled a spark plug and its covered in raw gas and oil. Pulled the dipstick, wasnt milky but the oil was thin and reaked of gasoline. the exhaust doesnt smell like coolant or oil, just like raw gas, yet it burns white. The car is also only achieveing 7mpg and it is stock except for a catback. Any idea? The coolant level is fine and isnt burned or anything and the car doesnt overheat.

You can hear the stock electric fuel pump inside the car buzzing away too. And you can hear the car missing

Any ideas? Im a little stumped...

FANTA-Z

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Pull the line off the fuel pressure regulator and see if it has gas in it. Could be a faulty regulator or some of the injectors might be stuck open flooding it with gas.

Paul Bell

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Sounds like it's not a head gasket. Did this just start happening on it's own or was it after a plug/wire/cap/rotor/sensor change? Is the SES light on steady or comes on sometimes? Any hissing sound under the hood from a vacuume leak?

blackwizard22

The guy we bought it off of did a cap rotor plugs wires, fpr, change. It seemed to be fine for a few days after we got it but now its like i described. I think it is the FPR.

blackwizard22

Gonna test the regulator friday. pull the vaccuum line off the reg and if i smell gas or its dripping out then its bad right? then pressurize the system and clamp off the return line. If pressure holds then its a bad reg? If it doesnt hold then i have leaky injectors?

transam5.7lt1

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Sounds to me more like a situation where fuel is getting contaminated with oil. Might be bad and worn valve stem seals. It happened to me a while back, white smoke, but it had an smell of oil, in the daylight it would look a little blue, but it had an overall white look.