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<blockquote data-quote="IrTehL33T@DBeez" data-source="post: 2141237" data-attributes="member: 568276"><p>he&#039;s right about the black smoke. a blown head gasket, or beginning stages of a problematic head gasket would be more likely to cause consumption/burning of coolant or oil. burning oil will be blue smoke, whereas coolant will be white smoke and has a particular &#039;sweet&#039; smell. i havent dont a head gasket on that motor before, but inline 4&#039;s are general easy, particularly the single cam varities. just the other day my friend and i did a head gasket on his eagle talon (4g63 turbo, which is an inline four dohc) and it took maybe 2 hours for the teardown, installation of arp hardware, new gasket, then reinstallation. add about a half hour onto that because we had a bit of a hassle with the timing belt. i dont know if you&#039;re a mechanically inclined person or have friends that are, but its not a very intense job and its something that a shop would charge a pretty hefty sum to complete. to get an idea of savings... my friends mls head gasket (multi-layer, high perf.) was under 100 bucks, a stock type gasket might run you 50 bucks, you can really save some cash doing it yourself</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="IrTehL33T@DBeez, post: 2141237, member: 568276"] he's right about the black smoke. a blown head gasket, or beginning stages of a problematic head gasket would be more likely to cause consumption/burning of coolant or oil. burning oil will be blue smoke, whereas coolant will be white smoke and has a particular 'sweet' smell. i havent dont a head gasket on that motor before, but inline 4's are general easy, particularly the single cam varities. just the other day my friend and i did a head gasket on his eagle talon (4g63 turbo, which is an inline four dohc) and it took maybe 2 hours for the teardown, installation of arp hardware, new gasket, then reinstallation. add about a half hour onto that because we had a bit of a hassle with the timing belt. i dont know if you're a mechanically inclined person or have friends that are, but its not a very intense job and its something that a shop would charge a pretty hefty sum to complete. to get an idea of savings... my friends mls head gasket (multi-layer, high perf.) was under 100 bucks, a stock type gasket might run you 50 bucks, you can really save some cash doing it yourself [/QUOTE]

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