Paul,

I don't see any blue smoke out the exhaust, at any point. It could be idling for 20 minutes, and I romp on it and it's clean. It just smells extremely rich.

Before when I had bad valve stem seals on 2 of the 4 cylinders, it smoked really bad at idle, and when I took off after burping the bubbles out of the cooling system I covered the whole street in blue smoke. When I pulled back, I could still see the blue smoke linger 100 meters down the street, where I turned around, and the other 100 meters back. And I am not exaggerating lol

I think if my valve stem seals were really that bad, it would show at the 2,500 RPM test as well, which it passed extremely well for hydrocarbons.


1993 TSi AWD
2008 Evo GSR
2011 Ralliart
2012 Ralliart
2011 RVR GT