During winter, I had quite a few cold starts and drives, actually it was freezing. I warmed my car up when I could but sometimes it wasn't worth being late to class.

So now that it's warmer I'm starting to drive my car a little harder because it warms up faster. I smell things when I hit vtec, sometimes like carbon, sometimes like oil. I'm thinking that since I commute only a mile at a time in this college town, that carbon is building up on my pistons quicker than normal, and maybe it's being burnt when I drive it hard.

Does anyone else experience this?

 

hello

 

idk what carbon smells like, but i do smell a burning hell smell when i rev high,

i always thought i was burning my clutch, but it's got less than 5k on it *although its an xtd ebay 6 puck)

 

if your just short trippin it all the time you'll wear your plugs out and create a not as well burned combustion and eventually misfires. so its probably possible but not cuz of winter.