I have a 89 LX and I am burning oil out thru the exhaust. It is pretty much constant especially at idle. If I accelerate hard it will shoot smoke out also for a few seconds. The color is white with a blue tint. There are some emisions that have been removed but nothing that I think would be causing this. The car is still pplenty strong. I just bought this a feww weeks ago. Supposedly the motor has about 15000 miles on it. I have the list of everything that was done to it. They claim to have put low tension rings in it. I'm not really familiar with all this but I am learning slowly. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Also I beleive this has a 160 degree thermostat in it. I was told that if I change that out to a 195 degree that my problem with keeping the car started when its cold would probably be solved. Sounds a little far fetched to me. I cleaned my idle air control but no help. It still has to warm up a little before it will stay started.