VolcomDSM
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- Feb 6, 2017
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san marcos,
Texas
This is my first time posting on this forum, so please bare with me. I have a 97' Eclipse GS-T Spyder (a.k.a Charlotte). It is completely stock with around 86k miles. I noticed she was miss firing and not having any power behind it, so I decided to start with my spark plugs and wires. When I went to pull them the wires wouldn't pull off the plugs. I literally had to dig them out around the plugs piece by piece. Upon doing so I noticed the plugs where crap. One was had the top broken almost broken off. Someone had installed Iridium plugs. So I went back and placed NGK copper plugs in. She started off really rough...would barely run then die a couple times. So I let it sit for about 5 min, went to start her up and after a minute she ran fine. But my issue is now I have a puff of white smoke (which I'm sure is from coolant) that appears from down around the bottom of my exhaust manifold. I can't see to pinpoint exactly where it is coming from but only occurs when reeving the engine up to about 4k rpms. I can't notice any smoke when driving down the road and she appears to drive just fine, its only when its in park and the hoods up. like I said though its not constantly smoking, its only when I really revved up the engine. Any ideas?