Smoking after releasing throttle at redline
06-07-08, 07:08 PM
#1
Smoking after releasing throttle at redline
So everytime I redline my car and release the throttle to shift it puffs out a little bit of white smoke. If I engine brake from redline it will puff out enough smoke that I can see it in my rear view. I have absolutely NO coolant loss and normal oil consumption. There is also no smoke whatsoever at cold startup regardless of how long it sat.
Factory Rotary Resurrection rebuild reaching ~40k miles, the engine runs great and pulls like it should, never had starting or flooding issues. It didn't used to smoke when I first got the car (10k on rebuild) and I've ran it low on oil a few times.
I'm going to steam clean the engine with water tonight to see if it does anything for me. Any ideas on what it could be?
Factory Rotary Resurrection rebuild reaching ~40k miles, the engine runs great and pulls like it should, never had starting or flooding issues. It didn't used to smoke when I first got the car (10k on rebuild) and I've ran it low on oil a few times.
I'm going to steam clean the engine with water tonight to see if it does anything for me. Any ideas on what it could be?
06-08-08, 05:10 PM
#4
Because I have OCD. At the autocross today I redlined and braked hard in gear on several turns and no smoke so it will only do it when engine braking. The oil control rings are a possibility, I topped it out once (7.5-8k rpm for 30+ sec.) and it was a quart low when I checked it the next morning, along with several other instances when its been run hard on low oil. Oil consumption is a bitch to monitor on these cars, FAQ says a quart to 1000-3000 miles is normal and thats a pretty long range...
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