you guys ever get a burning smell????
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you guys ever get a burning smell????
I've grown accustomed to smelling odd stuff while driving my car with the top down..... other cars burning stuff, cow **** in the country...... things I never noticed in a hard top
However MY car seems to make a burning smell sometimes when I park it..... like tonight, I went to dairy queen with the car club, had a nice leisurely drive home, not really much boosting, think I only went to 4psi or so....
And then I park my car to go inside the house, and there's this damn burning smell again! The car runs fine, PCV is ok, and I wouldn't imagine that my clutch was slipping during such a sedated cruise. The car doesn't leak anything, I have a hose routed to my filter from the drivers side valvecover vent, and nothing seems to be detached???? The downpipe and manifold are high heat painted and wrapped in DEI heat wrap, but the smell was present before I did that.....
It's just odd to me, I don't think anything is horribly wrong per-se but I'd like to find the root cause of the problem If I could!
However MY car seems to make a burning smell sometimes when I park it..... like tonight, I went to dairy queen with the car club, had a nice leisurely drive home, not really much boosting, think I only went to 4psi or so....
And then I park my car to go inside the house, and there's this damn burning smell again! The car runs fine, PCV is ok, and I wouldn't imagine that my clutch was slipping during such a sedated cruise. The car doesn't leak anything, I have a hose routed to my filter from the drivers side valvecover vent, and nothing seems to be detached???? The downpipe and manifold are high heat painted and wrapped in DEI heat wrap, but the smell was present before I did that.....
It's just odd to me, I don't think anything is horribly wrong per-se but I'd like to find the root cause of the problem If I could!
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my car always has funky smells after driving in the hot or boosting really hard. could be grease on the turbo if you worked on it...could be your exhaust burning a whole in your cat. could be a lot of things... it happens to everyone.
i wouldn't worry about it unless it starts smoking haha.
i wouldn't worry about it unless it starts smoking haha.
#7
My car gets a burning smell after runs too, doesn't leak anything or burn anything internally. Might just be the metal getting hot and smelling, or my unwrapped heater hoses melting (I plan to fix that eventually..) but who knows? If something important actually was burning I'm sure you would know about it by now.
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