Starting car after sitting for a year.

[Xantis]

About year and a half ago I had to park my car. I was starting fairly regularly with no problems. I then left for holidays and turned my alarm on out of habit. When I got home my car was dead. Assumed my alarm killed my battery. I wasn't going to be driving it anytime soon so I just left it the way it that way. A decision I wish I had never made.

So now a year later I am wanting to get my car back on the road. I got a boost from a friend and it started up right away. I let it run for about 30-45mins, turned it off and tried again and it was dead. Just assuming thats the battery needing to replaced. Not to worried about that.

My main problem is, while I had it running I would rev the engine a bit and tons of white smoke would come out the exhaust. When it was just idling there was a very little bit of smoke comming out.

What are some possible causes for this?

[GTS Jeff]

your batt is probably toast. they dont enjoy sitting dead for long.

and the white smoke could just be condensation thats heating up. hopefully itll go away after a bit. if not, then scream really loud and yell at the headgasket.

[Xantis]

I'm really hoping its not the head gasket.

Like I said, I'm not worried about the battery. It was the original and was probably due to be replaced fairly soon anyways.

[Ben]

probably a ton of h2o accumulation in your lines and junk, hasn't been started for a long time.

Funny question, but get someone to rev the car for ya and go behind and have a wif...does it smell like coolant? (sweet kinda smell)

[Xantis]

no need to, was a bit of a breeze today and it blew the smoke nicely back into the car. heh

Wasn't a sweet smell. Was kinda bad actually.

I'm really hoping condensation.

[Ben]

could have been your catalytic converter then?

Smell like sulpher/egg?

[Xantis]

That sounds a bit more like what it smelt like.

I think I'm just going to get a mechanic friend stop by and take a peek