Black Smoke?!?

[Mistaspakles]

So some Civic tries me on the road and I smoke him about three times. When we get to the stop light, this kid said that black smoke was coming out of my exhaust everytime I shifted. Any ideas?

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

Your running too rich.

Later,

 

[Black95GSX]

All turbo cars that are not melting pistons blow black smoke... trait of a turbo car.

 

[Mistaspakles]

I hope that's what it is. Thanks guys.

 

[Chameleon]

Maybe a bad turbo.... might need rebuilt

 

[fast_talon]

If you are running rich or do not have a CAT you will see black smoke.. My friends call it turbo dust.

 

[Black95GSX]

If your turbo is bad, it would leak either water or oil.... in which case you would see blue smoke (oil) or white smoke (water).

Black smoke is always unburnt fuel

 

[Niknuk]

Can you get black smoke on startup if your plugs are fouled and you need to crank it a few to get the car to start...say, as if you were using a venting BOV w/o a vpc
(I know I know give me a break I just bought the car and havn't changed it yet)

 

[Black95GSX]

Well between the fouled plugs (not going to allow full ignition of all the fuel, more then likely) , and the vented BOV.... Yes, you are going to run rich as hell durring startup. Therefore you will have black smoke.

 

[Niknuk]

I don't have a coupla hundred bucks laying around at the moment so I figure on rigging something up to send the air back to the intake. My car has the TurboXS RFL so I'll have to figure something out, because the outlet on that is kind of trumpet shaped. Any idea how hard the air is going to come out of that at 17psi max? hmmm I don't feel like doing physics, I'll just weld it hehe