Is it Normal for black smoke to come out when the car is boosting? I notice it today when i was following my wife when she was in my car. And what type of smoke is it? TIA

 

running too rich...

 

Yep, definitely running rich. That's not a bad thing at all. If you want to take a little of that richness away you can get a different disc for the fuel pressure riser, or get an adjustable fuel pressure regulator. Richness just pretty much equates to slight power loss, but on the safe side.

 

Ok well i have the MF2 system the thing is they are set all the way down. Oh well i am just hanging on untill i can go hondata and get rid of this problems.

 

The MF2 is known to to make the system run a bit rich. How badly are you trailing smoke? If its just puffing in between shifts and at hard boosting, I wouldn't worry about it too much....if its a freakin chimney on wheels, then maybe some other tuning is necessary..

 

Running rich is not a good thing, when it washes the oil off your cylinder walls, and scuffing starts to happen. It happened to mine, back when I was running rich.....

 

just between shifts and at hard boosting

 

Hahahahahahahahaha... that was a good one.

 

NA cars even puff black smoke between shifts (no big deal) If youre kickin up smoke only at heavy boosting, the I think youre fine....I would worry only if th smoke was blue or white...or if you were smoking at idle...


[Modified by MiraiZ, 7:19 PM 9/11/2001]