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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 01:37 AM
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So today while I was driving a guy pulled up next to me at a light and rolled down his window and gave a wave to get my attention. I rolled down my window hoping to get the "thats a great looking car or what exhaust do you have?" Instead he says hey man your car is letting out a little bit of blue smoke you should get that checked. I can't stop thinking about that now. I know that blue smoke usually indicates burning oil, but would the O/R H-pipe have anything to do with that? I'm running the canned diablo 91 tune for the C&L intake and I think it might be running rich, but wouldn't that produce black smoke? I really don't want to have to change my car back to stock to go in for warranty work unless its something serious. Do you guys think I'm being too paranoid or should I take it in? Anyone else have this happen when running an O/R pipe with an intake and canned tune? I'm going in for some delete plates along with a custom tune in about a week so I'm hoping that will fix the problem with the correct A/F ratio. Thank you for any input.
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 02:18 AM
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You're being to paranoid. All these cars burn some oil because they suck it through the pcv valve. This is what my cmcv plates looked like when I pulled the intake. It's all black smoke IMO unless it's white smoke.

Old Sep 25, 2007 | 03:23 AM
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Old Sep 25, 2007 | 10:41 AM
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1 + 1 = 2
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 11:12 AM
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+3...........also if the o//r pip is new it will give of smoke too but either way its nothing to worry about.
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 01:24 PM
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well your pulling 6 quarts of it. Some should burn off! Don't worry
Old Sep 25, 2007 | 06:04 PM
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Thanks for the info guys. Now I don't have to worry at the track on friday night.
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