out of the tail pipe? haha just some built up carbon....have u seen your pipe after a day? black as night....cant keep that fucker clean...you probably just had a little pocket that finally popped

 

thats what i was hoping someone would tell me. lol

yes it was out of the tailpipe.

Never had it before and the car seems to be running fine. I just hear ppl on here with smoking turbo issues i got nervous

 

Or your just running richer now, either way black smoke isn't really a big issue unless it's dumping out the rear end.

 

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thats what i was hoping someone would tell me. lol

yes it was out of the tailpipe.

Never had it before and the car seems to be running fine. I just hear ppl on here with smoking turbo issues i got nervous
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if the turbo was smoking it would be white and from the hood...

only concern i would have about tailpipe fews would be....constant black, constant blue, or constant white (after warm up)....other than that...puffs are normal...ecspecially black

 

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if the turbo was smoking it would be white and from the hood...
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thats not true, if your turbo was smoking it would come out of the exhaust pipe because the turbo system is generally a sealed system. the only time should you ever have some type of smoke from the hood is in the event of a failure of gaskets on the turbo.

 

And don't rev your motor to redline unloaded, you're asking for problems.

TIM

 

i thought i had read the same as what biggu said that a turbo issue ud see the smoke from the exhaust... It hasnt happened since that night so im not too worried about it.

And tim i dont go all the way to the redline, just thought it was the easy way to describe it. i go to about 5500 max if its in neutral. and i rev it in neutral rarely.

 

i occasionally floor after my favorite turn on my way to work and if there is some poor SOB behind me they tend to get a cloud of black smoke in the face. i've had people ask me if my car is fucked up due to this.

 

That is completely normal for our cars. Mine did the same thing when I put in a Test Pipe. It's just unburnt fuel from running pig rich.

I was however able to cure it. Though I wasn't TRYing to cure it at the time, just improve performance. The way it was solved (for me) was (and I'm not sure which one did it) was on Christmas Eve, I installed my new presents from wifey...

High Pressure Fuel Pump Internals (I recommend PTP's)
COBB Turbo Inlet Pipe
Denso Iridium ITV22 step colder plugs.

Out of these, I'm pretty sure it was the HPFP internals upgrade, and also the plugs may have helped a great deal too, as my old ones had a lot of build up on them. The plugs being new probably makes it burn the fuel better instead of letting unburnt fuel through. The HPFP, I have no idea how that could have helped, but since it's fuel related, maybe it did. Someone else may have a better idea. Lastly, the COBB TIP lets more air and colder air through, so that may have helped balance things out.

Anyhow, that's what happened. Now I get NO black smoke. AT ALL. Ever. Used to it would puff black smoke all the time when I would floor it and especially at shift points. It was embarrassingly bad sometimes. lol Nothing like getting on it and black smoke puff'n out the back that a locomotive or chimney stack. ugh.

 

The colors that you should be looking out for that is coming out of the tail pipe are white smoke, gray smoke and blue smoke. Those colors of smoke is such a pain.

 

i see some wrong in here so ill clarify.....

Black smoke is just carbon, no worries about that.
Blueish/white smoke is oil seals in turbo going bad....will notsmoke though hood, will only go through exhaust (unless exhaust leakobviously)

 

Same thing happened to me -- accelerated hard and had a big puff of black smoke come out of the exhaust. I figured it was just carbon build up b/c when I punched it again at the next green light, no smoke. Guess that means I need to floor it more often to keep it clean. I can live w/ that solution.

 

Black smoke ... IMHO running rich.

 

These cars will produce carbon/black smoke with about any tune. The carbon deposits coming out of your exhaust could be as simple you driving your speed like a little old granny for a while, then flooring it. That stuff builds up so fast. I too, had someone at a light wave me down and ask if my car was okay. I had been driving lightly for over a week, then spooled up for a friend and holy balls. The burst of smoke probably pissed of the guy behind me pretty bad.

 

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Black smoke ... IMHO running rich.
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I would rather run rich than lean with the snail...