xleviticusxx

i drive an eclipse gs, non turbo. and its recently started smoking white smoke. i checked the head gaskets and all that, and its showing no signs of a blown head gasket. someone said its my piston rings. how long long till my motor is done for? and will it make it worse if i put a performance module in my car? please reply soon. i want to know asap.
thanks.

83Stang5.0

420A and "performance" don't go together. She's done for, scrap the car for what you can get.

xleviticusxx

i was asking for help. not this. thank you.

PicovAndropov

He gave you help asshat. Scrap the car or go with a 4g63 swap if you feel like still staying with Mitsubishi.

Turbobonics

Send that shit to the machine shop, over bore new rings b4 it does damage, it wont be too costly

gameoverr96

how did you check for a blown headgasket??... piston rings would cause you to have blue smoke.. and im sure if you put a "performance module" in your car it will make things worse

xleviticusxx

thank you turbobonics, the reasonable person in vadriven.

Dough_Boy.

It's not a piston ring. Piston ring would be oil, which is blue smoke not white. White smoke is coolant. So it's either a head gasket or you head has a crack in it. Does the radiator have a lot of pressure when you pull the cap off after it's been running? I'm curious as to how you checked a head gasket without pulling the head off?

Turbobonics

He's right head gasket does need to be ruled out, shit sounds better then rings to me, but yes oil rings are a issue in that engine, so I'd start with the head gasket,

Or if u or a friend have access to a down leak testor, an air compressor, that will help narrow the diagnosis

83Stang5.0

I gave you real advice as someone who drove a 420a powered eclipse, who also rebuilt the entire motor after it spun a bearing.

You didn't say what year car/motor, that's very important, especially since you're dealing with a possible headgasket issue, and these motors have a common headgasket issue.

I understand perfectly the whole "I got it, so I'm gonna drive it" but unless you look into rebuilding for boost and a stand-alone like megasquirt, you won't make any real power or have any decent management.

At that point, the amount of money you'd spend on a sub 300whp car, with a weak, non-performance oriented motor as a platform, you could just dump into a Honda or something else and be way faster and more reliable.

I say they are junk motor's because short of just driving them daily, that's all they are good for. I wouldn't even recommend rebuilding one ever, just get one from a junkyard cheaper. They came in a ton of vehicles.