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Originally Posted by TobyB  Well, yes, of course, there are no free lunches.
Your mileage will suffer, too...
I DO think, and it's only my opinion, that a carefully and sympathetically
maintained engine that's used "hard", e.g. a few track days a year,
brisk acceleration on the street, etc
stands a better chance than Grandma's if she doesn't maintain it.
And agreed, if it has a bad head gasket, don't drive it. The coolant eats the
bearing material, as well as being a substandard lubricant.
But if you accelerated hard and then the headgasket blew, well, it was going to
blow soon anyway.
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The day we ran it was it's first day on in a year, with the same old oil and coolant that was already in there, also the intake rubber boot had a crack in it. I just got in the new oem intake boot today and ran it and (at Idle at least) there wasn't any smoke. I still haven't taken it around the block yet.
By any chance could the symptoms be because it's been sitting forever? Also it was using the same OLD fluids that were already in It? Thanks for all the info btw!