Sounds like hg or piston. Cost me $1056 for two new hgs, uim gasket, lim gasket, head studs, em gaskets, vc gaskets, coolant flush, water pump, thermostat, plugs, and wires. Of course, that was paying a shop to do it of course. You could do a coolant system leakdown test to try and cancel out a bad piston and/or verify its just the hg.