Typical white smoke.

[92Frankenstein]

Why is it that every mustang 5.0 i see on the road (im assuming 100,xxx + 5.0's) seem to have large quantities of white smoke billowing out of the exhaust when they lay into the gas? Havent got a 302 up there in miles, but i was curious if this is a STOCK problem, rings, etc?

Thanks.

 

[DMAN302]

Called exhaust vapour...you might not recognize it cause yours is all pretty blue color comming out of the back of your chebby....

 

[blkstangman88]

i got 232k miles on my original engine w/o cats and flowmasters, and ive never had a problem even at high rpm's

 

[87'GTstang]

White smoke in the most extreme cases is coolant burning/evaporating - whatever you want to say. 5.0's may be infamous in reliability but they are natorious for oil consumption - but that would be indicated by blueish smoke. Sure that "laying into the gas" aren't your tires saying see-ya on the pavement?

 

[93GrunT]

i had a faulty fuel injector wash out a ring at about 130,000 on the stock 93v motor with hypereutectic pistons. i wanted to rebuild it anyways.

 

[mustang88GT]

130k strong and dont have that prob...