Should my car be blowing out some smoke at WOT from tailpipes?
#1
Should my car be blowing out some smoke at WOT from tailpipes?
I have pretty much all bolt ons, including headers and not cat. My friend was behind me the other day when I "raced"..more like bitchslapped a cougar from a stop. He said he saw a good bit of smoke coming from my tailpipes...I can see some too if I look in the rearview mirror. Its not ALOT, just some smoke. Is this because of my !cat, or does this sound like im running a bit rich?
I have an air/fuel mixture gauge, and it reads like one bar into green(rich) for those of you know what those look like.....so I dont think thats too rich, just a bit past stoich.
Oh ya I guess its been doing this for a while too. And lately I have been able to smell gas when I get into my car and cant really find where its coming from...
I have an air/fuel mixture gauge, and it reads like one bar into green(rich) for those of you know what those look like.....so I dont think thats too rich, just a bit past stoich.
Oh ya I guess its been doing this for a while too. And lately I have been able to smell gas when I get into my car and cant really find where its coming from...
#3
Re: Should my car be blowing out some smoke at WOT from tailpipes?
Originally posted by 95BlackTA
I have an air/fuel mixture gauge, and it reads like one bar into green(rich) for those of you know what those look like.....so I dont think thats too rich, just a bit past stoich.
I have an air/fuel mixture gauge, and it reads like one bar into green(rich) for those of you know what those look like.....so I dont think thats too rich, just a bit past stoich.
But with out a cat and if you are indeed running rich it would explain the smoke. What color is it?
#4
those a/f guages are not very accurate, i had a autometer one they just dance around and look pretty, an egt (exhaust gas temp) guage is much more acurate
my 02
*edit* sorry phaint must have posted right when i did
my 02
*edit* sorry phaint must have posted right when i did
Last edited by RTZ-28; 10-21-2003 at 10:53 PM.
#5
Ok. Well since Ive had the car, its had the cat removed..and Ive only smelt the gas for the last month and a half or so.
The smoke, I dont think its black...just like regular grey smoke im pretty sure.
The smoke, I dont think its black...just like regular grey smoke im pretty sure.
#8
The same thing happened to me the other day but it was a lil bit different it was black smoke. i'm pretty sure its from my cut out tho. I guess it has something to do with the build up of carbon in the mufflers or something and it just blows out when you go WOT. But yea i think for ME it is normal i have seen a Vid of someones car on here doing the same thing from them reving it real fast to high rpms.
So it MIGHT be normal..
So it MIGHT be normal..
#13
Black smoke is ok. Ive seen many cars do that, espicially lt1's runing rich. Now my car when I first start it up puffs a blue smoke. That is bad. I think I have bad valve seals, because it only does it at start up, or when I rev the motor up in nutrual and it puffs it after I let off.
Now if your puffing a white smoke or blue smoke at WOT racing, that could be a sign of worn rings. If it bothers you, then get a compression test done. If its black smoke, dont worry about it. Just my .02.
Now if your puffing a white smoke or blue smoke at WOT racing, that could be a sign of worn rings. If it bothers you, then get a compression test done. If its black smoke, dont worry about it. Just my .02.
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