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01-31-06, 12:42 AM

My_fd

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I was driving my car and my brother was following me. When i started to push the car my brother told me that black smoke shot out off the exhaust tail pipe. what does this mean? Thanks

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01-31-06, 12:46 AM

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black smoke - excess fuel

Was it a constant stream? Just a puff? What are your mods? Mileage?

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01-31-06, 02:08 AM

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black smoke - excess fuel

Was it a constant stream? Just a puff? What are your mods? Mileage?

Rynberg speaks only wisdom. Your car was probablly running TOO rich...

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01-31-06, 04:29 AM

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needs tune, my buddies wrx use to do that till he got the a/f worked out

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01-31-06, 09:14 AM

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it was just a puff. mods are intake and catback. the car has 25000 miles on it.

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01-31-06, 09:20 AM

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Probably not a big deal. The stock ECU is set a little rich from the factory for safety.

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01-31-06, 09:25 AM

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it was just a puff. mods are intake and catback. the car has 25000 miles on it.

If I haven't gotten on it hard for a while, mine will do that when I floor it. It has done it since it was new. It's mostly just blowing out carbon deposits in the exhaust system.