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Smoking out of spark plug holes??

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000triple000

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Sep 6, 2010
lima, Ohio
Ok lets start off. My talon ran good then I jumped my g/f's car because she left her lights on. The car acted real weird sounded like it was preigniting and when driving it, it felt like it had a major hesitation. It built boost but it like a deep loap through all rpms and speeds, also when idling. I checked the oil, coolant, regapped spark plugs (instantly covered in a thin black film of oil or gas not to sure) (also car has new rings, hone, bearings, top end seals, headgasket, etc. its all still being broke in). Anyways I took the spark plugs out after letting it start and run for a minute or two, and I took the spark plugs back out and smoke was coming from the cylinders through the spark plug whole. It smells kinda like running rich but or oil not to sure which one. But the car pretty much acts like crap, but idles at a steady pace. Its really stumping me, Im going to perform a boost leak check and my plugs, wires are all brand new ngk bpr6es. Can anyone help me out please and thak you??
 
I would think that you shorted something out that deals with the fuel delivery like the cas or the ecu are you throwing any codes and are the plugs wet all the way across possibly some dirt or something in the fuel line stuck some injectors lots of possibilities here but since it happened after you jumped the car I would head towards electricle or sensor related
 
Do a compression test and see what the numbers are where you saw smoke come out. When that happen to me the smoke coming out of the spark plug hole i had bad piston ring. You stated that you just got your motor rebuilt. How many miles you have on it so far? Have you been boosting on it? Cause if the rings arnt seated yet and if you are running rich gas could seep past piston and basically wash oil away. So hopefully something didnt happen to the rings.
 
This also happens from a bad valve cover gasket letting oil onto the plugs. Don't panic.. yet.

Compression test to be sure. If that's all good, replace your vc gasket.
 
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