Well there are strange noise, rattle, and squeak complaint sections but no strange smell section!! Lol.

Anyways, I go out to change my oil and start up my car to let it warm up(doesn't take much with out 100+ temps) and I start smelling something weird. The only way I can describe it is sour kraut mixed with a tiny bit of burnt rubber. It seemed to be coming from the header or that general area. I checked the header but there didnt seem to be anything on it that would cause that. Anyone know if this is something I should worry about or not?

 

check under the car maybe u have a plastic stuck on the exhaust pipe

 

Thats what I thought but I checked and no. Maybe I gots me some rat feces somewhere on my exhaust but it doesn't smell like it.

 

Back in college, my friend had a cat **** all up in her engine bay and it stunk for days!

 

LOL, how in the world a cat will go into the engine bay, if i knew a cat was in there i would take it for a joy ride on the highway ( fried cat ) LMAO

 

Well a while back I was reading on another board about a dude with an RSX. He was driving one day and all of a sudden he heard a POP under his hood. He didn't know what was going on so he pulls off thinking he busted a belt or something like that. When he opened his hood he had a pretty scary surprise. His engine bay had blood all over. Turns out a snake crawled up in there over night and got caught in a belt. If i recall he had no damage from that but I bet it smelled unpleasant.

Anyways I went and checked out my car again and I didn't find anything and we had a thunderstorm tonight and the smell seems to be gone. Probably just rat **** or a big juicy bug was frying on top of my exhaust somewhere.

 

^^ damn now thats funny, never thought it could happend