Smoke plumes when vtec engages
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Smoke plumes when vtec engages
just like the title says.....motor is a 99 b16 stock internals and stock i/h/e has about 70,000 on it. my friend trailing me saw it happen everytime vtec would engage and i could see it in my rear view mirror also. anyone have this problem? or know what it is from, regularly it doesnt do this.
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my b16a used to do this,i always figured it was because the rings were weak and causing blowby in high rpm's but my motor used to have a supercharger on it before i got it.thats what led me to this conclusion.
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Re: Smoke plumes when vtec engages (ScoobCivic)
Have you done any oil consumption testing? If you're not losing large amounts of oil, I'd just ignore it. VTEC engines burning oil at high-RPM is common.
I'll get a puff of oil smoke occasionally when I use VTEC in my B16A, but its nothing major . . . the car consumes virtually no oil in between change intervals.
I'll get a puff of oil smoke occasionally when I use VTEC in my B16A, but its nothing major . . . the car consumes virtually no oil in between change intervals.
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Re: Smoke plumes when vtec engages (Targa250R)
Oil Cunsumption testing?.....sorry dont know what that is, can u elaborate please?
i lose about a quart inbetween oil changes, i know that is from my main seal that is leaking, but other than that the plume of smoke only comes out when the rpms gets high, as in vtec engagement....thnkx
i lose about a quart inbetween oil changes, i know that is from my main seal that is leaking, but other than that the plume of smoke only comes out when the rpms gets high, as in vtec engagement....thnkx
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Re: Smoke plumes when vtec engages (ScoobCivic)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ScoobCivic »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Oil Cunsumption testing?.....sorry dont know what that is, can u elaborate please? </TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ScoobCivic »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i lose about a quart inbetween oil changes </TD></TR></TABLE>
have you had the car tuned? have you ruled out unburned fuel?
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ScoobCivic »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i lose about a quart inbetween oil changes </TD></TR></TABLE>
have you had the car tuned? have you ruled out unburned fuel?
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