Smoking, is it bad for my engine's health?
Over the last year my 2.5 GTV6 has started smoking when I lift off, especially after caning it. Having read through the forum I reckon that its the valve guides. My question is this, the engine is running well apart from this and I am saving up for a 3 ltr conversion (new baby means that this will take a while!). Will it do any harm if I just top up the oil from time to time. How long before I have to do something? Thanks for any advice.
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'84 GTV6 UK spec back on the road after 4 years!
05 Corolla daily driver
'84 GTV6 UK spec back on the road after 4 years!
05 Corolla daily driver
My 2.5 smoked through the guides to the point of embarrasment with no further damage other than environmental. I finally took the car off the road when it was using about 1 litre of oil every 1000 km 
but that seems to be only slightly outside the factory allowable spec 
Only problem I have is I'm still not ready to put in my 3.0 24v because of the list of good mods I seem to keep adding to. It'll get there eventually.
but that seems to be only slightly outside the factory allowable spec Only problem I have is I'm still not ready to put in my 3.0 24v because of the list of good mods I seem to keep adding to. It'll get there eventually.