I was taking my car to the shop to get some body work done so i had my girl friend follow me there...i hit the gas a little and from what she says a small poof of black came out of my exhaust and a slight burning smell...Normal? worth worrying about?

 

Any mods to the car? If you haven't gotten a tune yet, could just be you getting into boost and running pig rich. If it's stock, get used to having others telling you your car is smoking bad.

 

it is stock completely...and no tune yet...only had it about 1800 miles and all i hear from my friends or whomever is that my car smokes a little when i really get on it...then the burining smell, i definatly need to get it tuned but i cant afford to void warrenty just yet

 

it obviously shouldn't be doing that if it's completely stock, take it into the dealership to get looked at

 

Both mine, and my coworker have the X, it will smoke when you get on it. Other ones in town do the same, unless they are leaned out from a tune.

You can take your car to the dealership if you want, but in this scenerio I think it's a waste of time.

 

sad thing is i did 3 different times..and 3 times they couldn't figure it out but found other things that were wrong...i bought the car used with 11k and they definitely didn't check it at all before selling it...but that's a different issue that was already addressed

 

Is there anyway to get a video while she is following you? Now that there is more to the story, it could be different things....

 

well everything was fixed 100% and i never smell anything in the cabin its only smelt when i really put it down from the ppl behind me and a poof like i said

 

Take it to a dyno and see what the a/f is.... some shops have dyno days where it costs next to nothing for a baseline run.

 

This has been gone over so many times. The cars run very rich from the factory and the black smoke is normal.

 

This might be a stupid question...But....Are there any tune packages that are aproved by Mitsubishi? I heard rumblings that Vishnu tune is offered by some dealerships

 

Welcome to the 4B11.

Even with a tune, you'll still experience this, in particular if you run w/o a cat.

 

mine still smokes bad after a tune and high 11 afr...completely NORMAL!

 

i love u all...thanks for putting my mind at ease

 

+ 1... Same situation on my car... Even with a nice tune I am still smoking black big time especially when I downshift and then nail it or above 4000 rpm.


It's still kanda suck... Anybody have a clue why it keep doing that even with good AFR's.