Basically when i start my car it ticks for about 7seconds and stops ticking, noticed last night that there was some white smoke coming from the tail pipe and my car is not getting hot its getting cold(i mean the temp meter reading) p[lease help with whatever advice you can come up with, just got head job done, brand new radiator and oil change and spark plugs put in....

 

Are we talking about a 2.5L or 3.2L engine? Curious, however response is same for both.

A little ticking on startup is not unusual. It takes oil pressure a few seconds to deliver oil to all bearings and parts and there is some noise before the oil pressure reaches working level. Virtually all engines do this w/o problems. If you want to aovid any ticking/noise on startup, you can use the 2-step startup method. First allow engine to catch, but switch key OFF immediately. This prevents any noise, but does pre-load bearings w/ oil. Restart immediately and you should experience very low or no noise on start.

A low operating temp (well below 1/2 way point on temp gauge) indicates a faulty thermostat. A good thermostat will warm the coolant temp to slightly below mid-range of temp gauge w/i 5-minutes or less of operation. Replace a faulty thermostat w/ a new OEM thermostat to get the quick warmup to operating temps and resultant improved fuel efficiency.

good luck

 

yeh its a 3.2tl, but it wasnt ticking before the head job but maybe thats because my heads were messed up,...but the thing with the temp is that you know its like an F with 2 squiggly lines under it, the regular is for it to be on the 2nd squiggly line and just have 2wave oscillations, sort of like a sideways "S" on the 2nd squiggly like thing, so today while i was on the highway, it went slightly below the 2nd squiggly line, now i dont know what would cause that since i just changed the thermostat like 1month ago, but thanks for the feedback tho