exhaust leak or backfire
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exhaust leak or backfire
How can I tell if I am having significant backfires stemming from my engine or if I just have an exhaust leak somewhere after my header? I cant seem to find out what is causing this hickup in my FC ha ha. no it really isnt funny it sucks.
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Good calls I have done the looking under the car. I tightened the bolts and checked the flow or exhaust under the car and cant feel any leaks, however I do also have a cat soooooo. Im thinking just getting new gaskets and replacing them all. cant hurt anything but my pocket right?
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Pop Pop BANG FIRE!
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just gutted my cat the other day and it does the popcorn sound typically between 1st and second sometimes 2nd and 3rd or even 3rd and 4th. It does it when i rev it just right too. i like it tho
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I've heard of that. Never happened to me though
As for the popcorn thing, since I have stock mufflers with the RB header and presilencer it makes that kind of sound when idling lol. More of a metallic sound though.
As for the popcorn thing, since I have stock mufflers with the RB header and presilencer it makes that kind of sound when idling lol. More of a metallic sound though.
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1988 rx7 s4 t2 swap
I have cats on my car. But sometimes I have some occasional popping from my exhaust. I figured it was just my car backfiring. It doesn't seem to hurt the condition of how my car runs though.
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so this is normal to have the popping popcorn sound at idle cause mine just started to do it i dog the **** out of my car so im just tryen to checkup and make sure i havent broken anything yet
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it's pretty common so yeah. Once it's warmed up it won't do it as often though. I have a fairly new motor in mine, and it does it. My roomates RX-8 does it as well.
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the haynes manual says poping noises in the exhaust is called afterburn and it lists the reasons why it maybe happening. i dont remember what exactly they reasons were except for one..... timing!! check your timing!!!
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timing isn't a big one, but you're right, you should check it. NA RX-7s runs really rich so there's always extra fuel in the exhaust. Now add the high exhaust temp and you get pops lol
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