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01-15-13, 12:25 PM
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Smoke at WOT kickdown -
This morning, I was sitting at 30mph at 1800rpm, and had to do a instant -kick-in-the-pants WOT kickdown.
The car hit 4k and sped away. I noticed a small plume of smoke in the rearview mirror.
What could it be? Unburnt gas, or....? No other times do I have smoke.
01-15-13, 03:04 PM
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01-15-13, 03:23 PM
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did you happen to see what color it was? See if you can reproduce it and also take a close look at the exhaust when starting it up in the morning.
01-15-13, 03:36 PM
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i've seem many cars show large plumes of smoke when at WOT, mostly all black from burning fuel.
white = water indicating a head gasket failing, and blue = oil indicating seals/piston.
01-16-13, 11:08 AM
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Looked like white or blue smoke, but when the car does cold starts, no smoke at all.
It was low 30's when this happened yesterday.
01-16-13, 01:52 PM
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If it's white check your power steering idle up valve or remove it and bypass.
01-17-13, 12:26 AM
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that cold and it was probably just condensation from the water in the exhaust, you should be seeing it on a lot of other cars at that time too, esp. at night when the exhaust gets illuminated by headlights.
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