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Puffing a little smoke?
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:56 pmby Pyramidrocker
My GT puffs a little white smoke when i give it to her, Could this be the 98 Vortex fuel i'm using?
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:20 pmby Arith
Pyramidrocker wrote:My GT puffs a little white smoke when i give it to her, Could this be the 98 Vortex fuel i'm using?
Does smoke come out if you switch to another brand? Does white smoke appear when you turn off the car, leave it for a few hours, and then start it up again? Have you recently done any upper engine cleaner?
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:30 pmby Pyramidrocker
Nah doesn't do it when i turn it off.
Sometimes it'll do it at idle then i wont see it for days.
Today i gave it a boot and at the top of 3rd and i seen a puff out the rear view mirror.
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:51 pmby Q
Pyramidrocker wrote:My GT puffs a little white smoke when i give it to her, Could this be the 98 Vortex fuel i'm using?
Is it completely standard? They normally run really rich so if you haven't given it bootful in a while it would more than likely just be clearing it's throat and throwing masses of fuel thru. Get someone to drive behind you to have a better look at the amount and colour of the smoke under load.
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:58 pmby jdm rsk
Usually
Rich = black smoke
White = oil smoke
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:39 pmby Q
jdm rsk wrote:Usually
Rich = black smoke
White = oil smoke
I didn't want to worry him straight away
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:45 pmby UrbanGTB
I thought white smoke was turbo seals and more so water
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:50 pmby jdm rsk
Q wrote:jdm rsk wrote:Usually
Rich = black smoke
White = oil smoke
I didn't want to worry him straight away
Me either
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:34 pmby senator
UrbanGTB wrote:I thought white smoke was turbo seals and more so water
blown seals result in constant smoke, if its just when the throttle is open, it sounds like blow by.....common on our engines, are catch can solves the problem.
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:43 pmby Pyramidrocker
Somebody else told me it coulb be blow by aswell, so eases my concerns.
Thanks fellas.
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:46 pmby castek
could also be that its cold?
My car blows some white smoke (more steam from condensation i'd say) at idle and while driving when its cold outside.
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:05 pmby jdm rsk
castek wrote:could also be that its cold?
My car blows some white smoke (more steam from condensation i'd say) at idle and while driving when its cold outside.
When it is cold. That's not smoke
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:51 pmby castek
can be confused for smoke though. especially when it hangs behind you
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:33 pmby senator
castek wrote:can be confused for smoke though. especially when it hangs behind you
has it got are smell??????
Re: Puffing a little smoke?
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Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:25 pmby Pyramidrocker
Yeah it's smells like a rich fuel smell. I think... it's hard to describe.