smells like oil
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the engine has oil injectors that make it burn oil during the combustion cycle for lubrication. you'll lose a quart every several hundred miles. also...for some reason or another lots of rx7s leak oil from random places. that may be what you're smelling as well, oil dripping onto a hot engine.
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Umm..can you differentiate the smell of a slipping clutch between oil? If you give the car lots of revs while feathering the clutch, you can start to smell burning metal. That would be the clutch.
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Slipping clutch and burning brakes smell the same. If you want to know what burning oil should smell like, drop one drop on a hot exhaust manifold. You'll get the picture.
Make me wonder when we can buy the Wonka "Smell-O-Vision".
Make me wonder when we can buy the Wonka "Smell-O-Vision".
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