Something is BURNING!!

[kppk1986]

I wanted to know if anybody knows why sometimes my car smells like something was burning. It usually happens when i drive my car really hard, like taking it to redline... I thought it was my clutch that was making that smell but someone informed me it was my belts... does anybody have a clue to what that smell might be??

[nnkfws333]

It could be a number of things...tires or clutch are the only thing in my mind that would burn.

If it were your belts, I think they might be gone by now.

[Hijacker]

how long have you had the motor in? freshly installed exhausts will smell like they're burning. And everytime I pull something off my exhaust and coat it in anti-seize before i reinstall it, it will smell as the anti-seize gets cooked.

[kppk1986]

I bought the car about a month ago.. and the owner before me dropped the engine in about a year ago..

[Hijacker]

not exhaust then.

where does the smell seem to be coming from?

[kppk1986]

from the sides of the car.. maybe under...

[Hijacker]

sides by the engine bay? sides by the doors? sides by the rear bumper?

[Gladius]

Maybe oil burning.... Mine does when I run it hard. I dont know where its coming from.

[UsedToOwn240SX]

Check underneath the car. Maybe you got a raccoon stuck around the exhaust piping.

[912.0turbo]

Um check your coil packs.When mine were going bad you could smell the damn thing burning. I posted pics somewhere around here.