Smokey Exhaust

53BigDog

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• Nov 30, 2004

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Ok the other day I notice that I had some carbon residue around my driversides exhaust on the rear bumper. Tonight while sitting at a light I noticed that side's exhaust was "very very smokey" compared to the passanger side, it would cease a second and then puff again....all this while at idle. How do I trouble shoot this problem.

 

HoustonGT

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• Dec 1, 2004

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Are you running an O/R midpipe? Because when i had mine, it puffed for abit and smoked but then the computer adjusted and it was fine. Maybe an o2 sensor gone bad

 

tomustang

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• Dec 1, 2004

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what kind of mods do you have? need some info. and is the smoke white or blue?

 

twogts4us

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• Dec 1, 2004

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Compression test!

 

TweekedGT

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• Dec 1, 2004

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Is the smoke blue, white, or grey? Blue = burning oil, White = burning antifreeze/water, Grey = car running rich and dumping unused fuel out pipes (Grey will happen mostly when you are at high RPM and shifting.)

 

53BigDog

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Its Gray and White. Mods include U/D T/A Mac ProChamber, CAI, and Flowmasters

 

HoustonGT

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• Dec 2, 2004

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53BigDog said:

Its Gray and White. Mods include U/D T/A Mac ProChamber, CAI, and Flowmasters

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Sounds like you are running rich, but i would say you need to run a compression test.

 

AdamantiumKnot

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• Dec 2, 2004

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How old is the exhaust? I know mine burnt all the grease off, so it smoked for a little while.

 

GreekStang85

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• Dec 2, 2004

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i have an off-road prochamber too, and mine is smoking too probably becasue i am running rich

 

53BigDog

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• Dec 3, 2004

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Ok Running rich it is, how can you tweak it back?

 

GreekStang85

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• Dec 3, 2004

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some people say to disconnect the battery for like 5 minutes and the computer will adjust to it or something like that once you connect it back........ just what i heard but i havent tried it.

 

53BigDog

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• Dec 3, 2004

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Yes that will reset the computer, I have done that many many times, however if the error is still there, then after about 10 -15 of driving after the reset, blink, back comes the check engine light.