Black smoke and loosing oil! but no oil leaks? please help, please help |
Black smoke and loosing oil! but no oil leaks? please help, please help |
Apr 5, 2009 - 8:44 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 31, '09 From allentown Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
hey there iim new to this.my car has 118,00 miles. has catback. custom intake. and recently just did my header. i noticed i have to add about a quart a week of oil. i dont have a leak. also im blowing black smoke from my car. i have no clue. if anyone can help me out i would be real happy.
bttw its a st. thanks |
Apr 16, 2009 - 8:39 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jan 20, '08 From East Coast Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
Black smoke is absolutely running rich as stated above. I had it happen to a talon tsi I owned, ran rich at launch and blew black clouds (bad tuning).
I agree 100% that you're burning oil instead of leaking it and as stated a compression test on the cylinders would help and a wet or leak down comp test would help even more (as stated). This post has been edited by 6G96GT: Apr 16, 2009 - 8:40 PM |
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