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Old May 15, 2008 | 12:12 AM
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white smoke? not coolant?

occasionally my car smokes white and it will only smoke til its warmed up. once it's warmed up it runs fine. the car still has its power and everything. the coolant is still there and if anything it just goes into the resavior. oil seems fine and i recently did an oil change about a week ago and it was just oil nothing else. the white smoke smells like fuel if anything. help?
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Old May 15, 2008 | 12:14 AM
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btw it only started to smoke after i got a tune too.
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Old May 15, 2008 | 12:41 AM
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It's common to get a bit of smoke when starting the car for the first time in a day or two. If there's a lot of oil in the intake manifold (from the oil injectors), it'll give you some white/gray smoke until the excess burns off.
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Old May 15, 2008 | 12:47 AM
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some times its A LOT of white smoke. and it's weber carbed so theres no injectors =\
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Originally Posted by andresj
some times its A LOT of white smoke. and it's weber carbed so theres no injectors =\
Oil injectors, not fuel injectors. You have to be getting oil into the engine somehow, so it's either by premixing, the stock injector setup or by some other injection method into the intake manifold. Regardless, the amount of oil present will determine if you get smoke or not.
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