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SRPWR
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Today I started and idled my car as I always do. When I approached the rear of my car I noticed a small amount of "puffing" smoke but it was dark outside so I couldnt really tell what color it was. It wasnt idling wierd or anything. Anyways I gave the car a small rev and a huge amount of (it looked to be a greyish color) smoke billowed out of my exhaust, followed by a lot of black liquid spitting out. It went away and I cant, as of now get it to do it again. I checked the oil, and it is a good color and i checked the coolant and no oily residue in there. What could have happened?


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300bucks
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Its prolly just condensation that builds up in the exhaust system. The pipe is cold, the exuaust is hot.... Was it cold outside? It happens to every car.

SRPWR
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not really it was probly around 60 deg. or so and my car had only been sitting for about an hour. could it be running a little rich?

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TTT

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fpr might be starting to stick

SRPWR
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Its a stock FPR. Is that what happens when it starts to stick? What other problems would this cause? Lean/rich? And also my oil smells like gas a lot!!

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corey240
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did you figure this out? if your oil smells like gas, change it asap.


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