So, I bought the car in May 2007, from my dad. He took care of it pretty well. Kept the Oil changed every 3,000-3,500 miles. Never drove it hard. It's got 222,000 miles on it, and runs strong. Well, when I bought it, I changed a buncha things. Spark plugs, wires, valve cover gasket, intake, flushed the radiator, did a buncha stuff. Seafoamed it, went Synthetic on the oil about a month ago. Been takin' good care of it, but I drove to Tennesse about 3 weekends ago. About 500 miles to, and 500 back. I've never had a problem with the car yet, but on the way back, outta nowhere, the car started sputterin' real bad, and I looked down at the gauge's and the temp. gauge was up in the Red. Pulled over, called my step-dad. He came up, checked it out. One of my radiator hoses exploded. Anti-freeze went everywhere. He replaced the hose, and I drove it the rest of the way home (80 miles), filled it back up with water, did the good stuff. On the ride home, it was sputterin', but after awhile it calmed down, but we figured it was just cause some of the anti-freeze most likely got sucked in by the air filter/Intake. Well, the sputterin' calmed for a bit, but then now...when my car warms up, it sputters when it idles. I start it up, it sputters a bit, give it some gas, after a few seconds, it sits at about 1500-2000 and slowly warms up. (we replaced the thermostat with a 180 degree) But once it warms up, it starts sputterin' really bad, and now it's smoking. It's not burning any oil. I drove clear to Clarksburg last night (40 miles to, and 40 back), and checked the oil. Same spot it was when I left. Never had a problem with the oil, other then the oil pan gasket I need. My step-dad's pretty decent with workin' on cars and all, and he said something about my head gasket, since my car overheated, and I don't know how long it was hot, cause I didn't notice it, until it started sputterin'. We've kept water in it for awhile, and I just bought a jug of Anti-freeze about a week ago, and ever since I did that, it started smokin' a little. I seafoamed it this mornin', to see if the cause of it, was the anti-freeze that it sucked in, but it shouldn't smoke this much after drivin' it for awhile after it's been seafoamed. But like I said, ever since I added the anti-freeze, it's smoked, but when it had just water in it, it wasn't bad. Just smoked like...a tea pot does when the water's boiling. He said something about the water/anti-freeze gettin' into my intake through the head gasket. I'm just wonderin' if a head gasket is the cause, or if anyone else's had this problem. When I say sputter, I mean....the car sounds like an oldies Cammed muscle car. Put put put put put. But it only goes it when it's warm. I brought up the fact, that...it could possibly be a 90% chance of it bein' a head gasket, cause the thermostat doesn't open, until the car gets warm enough for it to let the anti-freeze flow out, and the car starts sputterin' when it's at about half way, and I'm pretty sure the thermostat makes it's action around that time. Oh, and I've had to add Anti-freeze/water 2 times since I added water before. And it's not leaking it, so I'm pretty sure it's going somewher ein the engine. 
Just lookin' for some input. Thanks. 
Just lookin' for some input. Thanks.
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