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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 12:12 AM
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I have black stuff coming from my exhaust. sometimes its all over my car on the back of it, but when im letting the car cool, i see black stuff all over the ground. not alot but enough to notice. any ideas what it is and how it got there?
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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 12:30 AM
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Youre probably running really rich. What are you doing for fuel?
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Old Aug 12, 2004 | 04:55 AM
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so what's the setup. Mine is the same, I suspect that when I boost there is alot of unused gas that collects in the exhaust which mixes with water vapour and spits out onto the bumper.
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 07:42 PM
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rc 440 with walboro intank with vfac hack. drag gen 3 kit
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 07:53 PM
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Im feelin it to....there is black spots all over my rear bumper from running rich. IM running about an 10.5:1 to 11.5:1 A/F. SO i do know im running rich.

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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 07:53 PM
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do u have wideband that tells your air/fuel ratio? black stuff coming out of the exhaust is fuelso you're probably running rich
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 08:08 PM
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Pretty sure all of the black stuff is from running rich, when i was running on blue box my muffler was covered with them black ****. i washed it all and went dyno tuned with hondata. 3 weeks now not even one spot of black ****.
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Old Aug 13, 2004 | 08:27 PM
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my car does the same thing
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Old Aug 14, 2004 | 11:19 AM
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get it tuned correctly and you wont see them **** again, i promise .
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Old Aug 14, 2004 | 01:16 PM
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O_o Luckily your not running Open downpipe. Having a BLACK CHARCOAL engine bay is worse. How the fvck can I clean that? -=P
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