So, you think you're an engine guru?
Ok, here's the situation (with all applicable details)
My '94 ES has 175K on the original block. At 140K miles the T-belt snapped and the head was replaced with a reman unit. Prior to the T-belt catostrophy, the engine ran perfectly with no problems. After the head was replaced, the car ran great but smoked occasionally. I also began to lose an alraming ammount of oil. All oil leaks have been remedied with one exception being a slight seepage at the oil pan gasket which is truely insignifigant. Now I'm losing 1 quart of oil each 500 miles or so. The tricky thing is when I pull my plugs after 20k miles, they are clean, with a light tan color to the plugs and NO oil contamination or accumulation of deposits. A compression test was performed with cyl 1 showing 190 PSI, cyl 2 180, cyl 3 185, cyl 4 183. Values did not change signifigantly when oil was added to the cylinders. Obviously, the rings/valves are not my problem. And it dosen't seem like the oil is being burned. But I'm still losing oil fairly consistantly. And I'm getting a nice sooting on my back bumper. So, the question is: WHERE is my oil going???