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Old Feb 22, 2006 | 02:38 PM
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Another quick way to see if your running rich is the smoke coming out of your car. I have a friend with a GSR motor and right when vtec ingages a small plum of smoke comes out the back. When i was running rich in my D16 the same thing happened. What octane are you using???
 
Old Feb 23, 2006 | 11:19 AM
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I have a friend with a GSR motor and right when vtec ingages a small plum of smoke comes out the back.
could also be valve float...
 
Old Feb 24, 2006 | 10:31 PM
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i think 93, whatever the highest is at the local pdq pump. You have to use higher octane in b16's because they r high compression engines.
 
Old Feb 25, 2006 | 12:18 AM
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Yes, it is unburned fuel that is causing it.. If any of you are NASCAR fans when you watch the cars go into a turn and back out of the gas it shoots flames out the exhaust and it is unburned fuel. Buddy of mine races late models and they do the same thing......
 
Old Feb 25, 2006 | 12:39 AM
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What have you done to mess with the fuel pressure?
 
Old Feb 25, 2006 | 10:20 PM
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nothing at all, My engine is bone stock with not cat, and an exhaust that leaks!!!!! I got a new catback on the way though.
 
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