Smoke!
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is it worth changing the plugs as they may not be working to thier full potential?
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thats not about the ecu, thats the throttle body, tps, tss and aas. If you coming to yeovil again in the next few weeks, bring me a cold can of relentless and Ill do it for you ;)
Another thing, hows your air filter? Blocked air filters are no good
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i have an after market one on there and it was new, i never used it before i put it on this car. we may be up that way sooner than expected bud but for the life of me, i cant remember why pmsl! think i will ask the misses when she wakes up
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Im still in yeovil for these coming 3 weeks, after that I move house, the weekend of 17th and 18th Sept is moving weekend, I could do it after that but cant do it on that weekend.
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did you find out when/why your coming back up here?
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no i cant remember at all. but what i can tell you is,
i changed my spark plugs yesterday as the old ones looked pretty coroded and i cleaned the inside of the throttle body. it now starts better but still smokes. I thought the hesitation was fixed until a 306 rallye tried to burn me off, and succeeded as i bogged down again. I am running out of ideas now. I know i have a leak in my exhaust and the CAT is on its way but surely that would not cause that much smoke and hesitation
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drive up here today and lets have a look, what part of your exhaust is leaking? I have a spare cat (im decat) and an excellent condition centre pipe/cat back
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whats your fuel consumption like?
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i would mate but funds are pretty low at the moment. kinda glad i didnt win those springs lol I havent looked at where its leaking yet but will have a good look around in a bit
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oh and fuel consumption has turned pretty drastic over the past few days
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So your gonna keep driving even though your fuel consumption sucks? If you set off now youll be here by lunch
Do you need those exhaust bits?
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well i still havent checked which bit is leaking yet but may have teh CAT off you in the near future, either that or get a decat made up. unfortunately, due to me having a couple of days sick last week I only have £35 left until next thursday….
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I dont mind if you want to have them and pay me back in a few weeks, theyre not giving me any money for sitting in the shed, so atleast if they were on your car in the meantime theyd be being useful. Your call
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if you keep hold of them until next weekend i will give you a definate yes or no but atm £35 wont get me to yeovil and back lol
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Ok can do.
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the zorst pipe I has…
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i cant see where it is leaking from but it is definately leaking. think i need to jack it up and have a proper wiggle about to find it. I think it might be from the back box though which isnt too bad. also instead of buying a decat pipe, should i just knock the internals out of mine and if so, what should i use to do it. the cat is rattly as fook anyway and i would say, from the smell at the back end, it is not doing its job. would it be worth (and sound better) welding a slightly smaller piece of exhaust pipe the same length of the CAT Into the CAT (if you get my drift). luckily I have a backbox that needs to go on anyway which is a stainless one
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oh and one more thing, my mechanic thinks the stem seals may be causing the smoke :( I have no idea how to fix this
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stem seals are quite tricky, you need to remove both heads then disassemble to the valves then reassemble the lot :wink:
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If you dunno how to do it then that can mean only one thing, its not a good idea for you to do it :)
Id try and rule out all the other possibilities first, valve stems would likely cause it to smoke like a psycho all the time, and theres a lot smaller, easier and cheaper things that can mimic the same situation.
Has your mechanic actually investigated it or just given you a guess?