Help, burning a quart of oil every 100 Miles!

[abarone300]

Hi, I hope you'll be able to give some advice as to what might be wrong with my engine. Here is a bit of back ground;

'95 VTEC Del Sol. Recently installed a new timing belt, and though it ran fine after assembly, I noticed some puffs of white smoke when on acceleration, did not smoke when idling (note that it did not smoke before the belt change!)

After disassembling the head again, I installed new valve seals, but I am getting the same problem!(note that I had disassembled the head and replaced all the valves when I installed the belt).

Could the oil rings be my problem, and what could have caused this? Like I said the engine was not burning oil before I Installed the belt! Is there something I might have over looked when I reassembled the head?

When an engine burns oil as bad as mine, should it run normal, or should it effect its performance in a noticeable way?

Thank you for your help

 

[Turbo&Auto]

Did you do a compression test? Not doubting you, but did you adjust the valves properly after changing them and the seals?

 

[abarone300]

No, I'm sorry to say I didn't! Since it ran fine...

No, I'm sorry to say I didn't! Since it ran fine...

Should I not be able to tell if the compression is lower? The car runs just as good, if not better than before!

I will run the test though, that should tell if there's a problem with the rings, wright?

Can you give me some tips as far as adjustments, would these adjustments effect the oil burning I'm experiencing?

Thanks

 

[Turbo&Auto]

If the valves arent properly adjusted it could possibly be dumping oil into the cylinder.

 

[eg6sir]

well..if you rebuilt the head, but not the bottom end.. you may have bad rings.. it happened to me in my CRX..