Smoke from exhaust??? Options

[Niskyspy]

I got the car 3 days ago. It had less then L of OIL in it. I changed the oil yest. I wasnt driving the car for about 3 days but I did start it a couple of times. Today I came after school and started the car and I saw some smoke coming out of exhaust. I got a clean paper towel and asked my friend to rev up the engine (it doesn't make any smoke until I rev it up and let the gas go) I held the towel against the muffler while my friend was reving the engine. Nothing black came out, there was some water but that was it. Then I took out one of the spark plugs to see if there is any oil on it. The spark plugs look fine they are just old so I will need to replace them really soon. Can any one tell me if this is normal on 95 Celica ST 1.8L?
Thank you very much

P.S. I hope its not the piston rings!!!

[Smlogg]

Well if its not oil....it may be ur pistons

No its not normal, for any car

This post has been edited by Smlogg: Jun 20, 2005 - 3:55 PM

[six_gen_slowica]

it is your piston rings they are bad and oil is blowing past them.... how many miles does ure car have on it ???

[Niskyspy]

90K

[MonsterBOX]

so if black fumes come out and stain the cloth or you have black on your exhaust tip then that means ur leaking oil?

[Consynx]

no, white smoke means oil burning inside the engine somewhere

[d-roCk]

hey i have a similar problem too!! i was in a parking lot one day with a couple of my friends and i juss got a muffler put on so i wanted him to rev it for me and i saw a little smoke i was like whoa... and then in my garage i can see a splatter on my floor like black dots on the floor that look like they came from my exhaust... i dunno what could be wrong either it has 82000 miles on it if that helps..

[Niskyspy]

Well, the tip is kinda black (it might be because of the dirt) there is nothing on the towel when I put it against the muffler with reving engine. I might use some SLICK 50 and see if will fix anything.

[Niskyspy]

Well, I drove the car for 30 min today. I brought up to 6K couple of times. Then I got home and asked my friend to look if there is any smoke coming out when I rev the engine. I reved it up to 3-4K and there wasnt any smoke. WEIRD.

But I am still gonna get some SLICK50 even though it is like 17$ a bottle. I think its worth it.