smoking problem help! can't find others like mine
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smoking problem help! can't find others like mine
ok so here it goes yet another smoking problem i have an 85 GS carb and when i first got the car(junk yard for $350) it wasn't getting fuel so i found out but of course it was missing the fuse for the gas pump... blah yeah got it running a lil white smoke on start up but after idle didn't smoke what so ever...with in the past 2 weeks it has been smoking white really bad warm or cold seems the warmer it gets the more smoke blows when engine is revved...smoke is white as can be when pouring out of the exaugst almost sounds like the pipes are choking on the smoke 
at idle it seems to have a blue tint but when the smoke is pouring out you can't see any sort of blue its a cloud white color also no it doesn't smell sweet to be a coolant leak the smell is almost as of a combination of fuel reg exaughst smell and sum oil...basiclly like a race track smell lol... now while i do not know what kinda oil was already in the car we topped off the oil with not even a whole quart of 10w 30 and as im thinking about it, it was smoking more after we did that could this be the problem for that much and type of smoke?
at idle it seems to have a blue tint but when the smoke is pouring out you can't see any sort of blue its a cloud white color also no it doesn't smell sweet to be a coolant leak the smell is almost as of a combination of fuel reg exaughst smell and sum oil...basiclly like a race track smell lol... now while i do not know what kinda oil was already in the car we topped off the oil with not even a whole quart of 10w 30 and as im thinking about it, it was smoking more after we did that could this be the problem for that much and type of smoke?
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ok so here it goes yet another smoking problem i have an 85 GS carb and when i first got the car(junk yard for $350) it wasn't getting fuel so i found out but of course it was missing the fuse for the gas pump...
blah yeah got it running a lil white smoke on start up but after idle didn't smoke what so ever...
with in the past 2 weeks it has been smoking white really bad warm or cold seems the warmer it gets the more smoke blows when engine is revved...
smoke is white as can be when pouring out of the exaugst almost sounds like the pipes are choking on the smoke at idle it seems to have a blue tint but when the smoke is pouring out you can't see any sort of blue its a cloud white
no it doesn't smell sweet to be a coolant leak the smell is almost as of a combination of fuel reg exaughst smell and sum oil...
basiclly like a race track smell lol... now while i do not know what kinda oil was already in the car we topped off the oil with not even a whole quart of 10w 30 and as im thinking about it,
it was smoking more after we did that could this be the problem for that much and type of smoke?
ok so here it goes yet another smoking problem i have an 85 GS carb and when i first got the car(junk yard for $350) it wasn't getting fuel so i found out but of course it was missing the fuse for the gas pump...
blah yeah got it running a lil white smoke on start up but after idle didn't smoke what so ever...
with in the past 2 weeks it has been smoking white really bad warm or cold seems the warmer it gets the more smoke blows when engine is revved...
smoke is white as can be when pouring out of the exaugst almost sounds like the pipes are choking on the smoke at idle it seems to have a blue tint but when the smoke is pouring out you can't see any sort of blue its a cloud white
no it doesn't smell sweet to be a coolant leak the smell is almost as of a combination of fuel reg exaughst smell and sum oil...
basiclly like a race track smell lol... now while i do not know what kinda oil was already in the car we topped off the oil with not even a whole quart of 10w 30 and as im thinking about it,
it was smoking more after we did that could this be the problem for that much and type of smoke?
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Just the fact that the smoke is super white, to me is coolant. Oil burns blue. doesnt matter what kind of oil or whatnot, it simply does not burn white.
Have you checked your coolant? Have you done an oil change recently?
Are you still running OMP. Check your omp flow rates as per FSM. I notice you are newish to the forum. These cars do burn oil. That is a design. On warm up they will smoke but it shouldnt be smoking ALOT after that, but smoke it will.
Do you still have your cats and emissions and all that? all relevant info
Have you checked your coolant? Have you done an oil change recently?
Are you still running OMP. Check your omp flow rates as per FSM. I notice you are newish to the forum. These cars do burn oil. That is a design. On warm up they will smoke but it shouldnt be smoking ALOT after that, but smoke it will.
Do you still have your cats and emissions and all that? all relevant info
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yes i still have all my rats nest in the car and cat...
but like i said yes it is very white when revved but at idle it almost looks like it has the normal smoke blueish tint (im not really new to this form just havn't posted much lol)
i have an rx8 and also wanted a rx7 so yup i got one thats why im on this forum now.. i highly doubt its a bad coolant seal because the only sign it is showing for that is the white smoke...no loss in coolent or gushing out in the over flow tank or bubbling for that matter kinda stuff...
oh also i just seen 2 oil lines that are like a hard plastic that run to the nikki had small craks in them could this be related?
but like i said yes it is very white when revved but at idle it almost looks like it has the normal smoke blueish tint (im not really new to this form just havn't posted much lol)
i have an rx8 and also wanted a rx7 so yup i got one thats why im on this forum now.. i highly doubt its a bad coolant seal because the only sign it is showing for that is the white smoke...no loss in coolent or gushing out in the over flow tank or bubbling for that matter kinda stuff...
oh also i just seen 2 oil lines that are like a hard plastic that run to the nikki had small craks in them could this be related?
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Just the fact that the smoke is super white, to me is coolant. Oil burns blue. doesnt matter what kind of oil or whatnot, it simply does not burn white.
Have you checked your coolant? Have you done an oil change recently?
Are you still running OMP. Check your omp flow rates as per FSM. I notice you are newish to the forum. These cars do burn oil. That is a design. On warm up they will smoke but it shouldnt be smoking ALOT after that, but smoke it will.
Do you still have your cats and emissions and all that? all relevant info
Have you checked your coolant? Have you done an oil change recently?
Are you still running OMP. Check your omp flow rates as per FSM. I notice you are newish to the forum. These cars do burn oil. That is a design. On warm up they will smoke but it shouldnt be smoking ALOT after that, but smoke it will.
Do you still have your cats and emissions and all that? all relevant info
...Dude, it's COOLANT. You're engine's FUCT. That's why you fished it out of a junk yard.
How many miles on it? Sell it to a real rotorhead for $400 who can rebuild the engine, and try again.
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so today i took off the cats...hmm guess what little to no smoke what so ever warmed, cold, revved low or high for all you coolent guys still think its the coolent?
sell my car my *** im going to be the one to rebuild it when the time comes lol
sell my car my *** im going to be the one to rebuild it when the time comes lol
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so just an update...the cars got 200,000 miles on it and since it came from the junk yard im not sure if it is the original engine or not...but it runs great and i hagled the guy at the junk yard for it to 350 i figured worst comes to worst i could sell it for at lest that much if not more for sumone to rebuild if i didn't wanna mess with it also before i got it i did a compression test and everything came back fine...the guy i got it from also has a second gen in the yard but its an automatic so im not that interested in it...but if anyone is somewhat close and is i can take pics for everyone
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