hi all just about to buy my first z, looked at one yesterday its a 91 jap import tt auto coverd about 60k looked and sounded realy nice but after warming up the engine there was some smoke from the engine near the battey. smelt like oil looked like a bit had leeked and was burning of? car had been siting in a garage for about a year could this be a head gasket?

Fluid on the exhaust...

What colour smoke?

 

Take the oil cap off... If there is white 'mayo' in the lid of the oil cap, then either, head gasket or sh@tty oil.

cheers, the smoke was white. im going to have a look on friday and give it a test drive, engine seem's to be really clean apart from that:)

Doubt it will be headgaskets - more likely rocker cover gaskets. These are prone to leak after a while. Other than that it could be a PCV valve hose that's started to leak oil onto the hot manifold although this is rare.

 

Good luck with your search.

 

Dan

Rocker cover gaskets or Turbo oil feed, leaking onto manifolds.

Depending on what angle your car is sat at, it could also be a leak from the autobox mate - Mine used to have similar symptoms on occasion when oil dripped from the rear seal!

mine doesnt smoke and its for sale

its sitting flat at moment not sureif its been moved tho. would love to but your a bit far away + i need the cash to do a few choise mods,

yeyyy someonr else in norfolk hope you find a nice one and sunderland aint so far i used to live in south shields before i moved to norfolk and thats only 250 miles away :)

worth travelling for the right car with the right mods

just been for a test drive. really nice, pulls well and sounds sweet just about to pop to the bank and get me some funds. should have some picks soon! any norfolk meets soon?