i changed my tensioner today and started the car and it started smoking and it smelled like snowmobile exhaust kinda like a oil gas mix comin from what looked like spark plugs but it wasnt..wonderin what it is????? friend said piston ring...

Did you use WD40 or something like that? even the slightest amount of it on the exhaust manifold would make it look like it'* smoking.

Take another look after it'* been running for an hour or so.

Any other symptoms? How'* it run? How'* it sound?

runs like its missing...rpms stay steady...but i dont really remember how it sounded before cuz its been a week since i started it...sounds like its misisn a bit....smoke is light blue...kinda smells like oil gas mix kinda like snowmobile exhaust

I got his original message all wrong.... I thought that smoke was coming out of the spark plugs

I've missed a lot of sleep in the last couple of days... I promise not to waste any more bandwidth until I get a good night sleep

it just looks like its comin from there....

Sounds like you screwed something up BUD. I would get a compression test done as stated before... its the only way to tell if one of your cylinders is dead and pushing oil into your combustion chamber......

also check your valve cover gaskets. if those leak it could be dripping down onto your exhaust manifold and burning.

my friend said he has a compression tester...how do you use it though? he said its 1 guage one hook up...so...i duno how else to do it...anyhow don and i were talkin bout possible head gasket! duno though

Your car has always run hot too hasn't it? You replaced the plugs wires and coils too.... A head gasket might explain why you think your car runs like a tortoise. Lets race!!