yeah ppl tell me they see black smoke coming out of my tailpipe when I NLS hard and goes away. I don't know if that is a good sign or not and have no CEL to indicate it. White smoke I don't knwo. These cars have made people so paranoid because of the many sensors we have compare to the LSJ that has less.

 

Mine did when my laminovas were leaking...

 

I have noticed white smoke once and only once leaving my house early in the morning.

 

in the couple weeks preceeding up to my motor failing i would see small puffs of white smoke here and there in my rear view. becoming more frequent until the motor went

 

your rings are going.. do a compression test to all four cylinders.. garunteed one of them is lower then the rest.

 

well mine smokes its ass off. if i sit and idle for about 3 mins it almost pours it out. And most of the time its constant white smoke... this sucks with only 13,000 miles on the car

 

i dont have a spark plug socket, socket extension but i will get one tomorrow

 

looks like ill be getting another car soon

 

Why? There might not even really be a problem with the car. You can't get yourself all psyched out and bummed based on a bunch of people blindly throwing random guesses as to what the issue may be (me included). Do some basic troubleshooting and go from there. Check the simple stuff first; check plugs for discoloration, check all fluid levels and make sure nothing is in there that shouldn't be ( such as oil in coolant, cooland in oil). If everything looks good, and you're still worried then go to the next level and have someone competent check the car out for you.

 

I am thinking it was rich smoke seeing who tuned your car. Rich smoke can look whitish in color. Oil smoke is very blue and coolant smoke looks white and smells like burnt sugar.

 

I concur with Term.

 

I told him a while back he should get an updated tune. With no misfire codes or constant smoke I bet its what you said causing the prob.

 

Yeah I have seen two of the tunes he did to cars in texas they were running 11.4 A/F in the upper RPMs which is stupid rich for this car.

 

Never seen one of these cars blow white smoke from running lean.

 

ok so yea I am having this problem too. I let my car warm up yesterday went to my friends and shut it of off for alil while then as I was backing out of his driveway alot of white smoke came out and it smelled horrible. I don't get why its doing it.

 

mine does it every time i NLS

 

Horrible smelling white smoke is normally burning coolant. Keep and eye on your coolant levels and check your plugs for greenish white scaley depoists that smell like burnt sugar.

 

You've never seen a boosted engine blow white smoke due to a lean condition?? Strange, because that's usually a tell tale sign of running lean in my field of work....

Either way, me nor tom.g said that it was definitely a lean condition.. it was just speculation. As is every post in this thread unfortunately. However, I do agree that it is most likely tune related.... again, I'm just speculating though..

 

When you shift you let your fooot up off the throttle. When the throttle butterfly closes manifold vacuum goes to max. Watch your boost/vacuum guage. When it happens suddenly some oil will be sucked past the valve guides into the combustion chamber and produce a puff of smoke. Check your coolant and oil ocassionally for cross contamination if it will make you feel better but your condition, AS YOU DESCRIBED IT, is nothing to worry about.

 

Never, but you cannot commanded leaner than 1.00 lambda (14.7 A/F on gas) on these cars. I have never seen smoke from a lean condition ever come to think of it and lets just say when I put the WB to my stock Polaris Outlaw 525S the A/F was showing as lean as 18.0:1 down low and 15.4 most of the rest of the way (stock emissions minded jetting LOL). No white smoke. A lack of power and a very clean pipe is all I had.

 

the car doesnt smell. but i contacted a local tuner to see if he could log it and find something so im just waiting to hear from him

 

Interesting... I can't really comment on your quad motor but maybe I've just gotten too accustomed to working on diesel engines, however most of this does still cross-over into the gaseous world as well. The general rule of thumb that we were always taught in school, go by at our shop, and I've always been taught even as a kid is

white smoke: possible lean condition, bad head gasket, warped head and/or coolant being burnt

gray/blueish smoke: oil being burnt in some form, or even bad valve guide(s) or seat(s)

black smoke: rich condition and/or ignition problem causing rich condition

Hasn't set me too astray yet in my almost 30 years of life, and almost 8 years of doing it in my professional carreer.

 

mine does black smoke if i dont give it for a wial

 

Supposebly my SS/TC puffed out white smoke last night going to the car meeet... I guess RYRO14's Trifecta Tuned SS/TC did the same thing. :shrugs:

 

To be putting out smoke like that though, your car must be running ridiculously rich right now though if it is indeed a fuel problem. My car has a failed map sensor atm (waiting on the 3 Bars to get here) loads up in the morning on fuel, and runs ridiculously rich. I can smell it, obviously it smells like gas and its way more obnoxious than any other catless turbo car I've been around and doesn't smoke a bit. Had people following behind me before and they never reported seeing smoke.