white smoke

[lisandra]

So anyone else? Its occacional like once or twice a week and just for a while. Its not rev dependant meaning that theres not a huge cloud of smoke if i rev it up.
Please somebody tell me its normal and not a head gasket or coolant leak

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[Elvis has a Mustang]

You will get what appears to be smoke coming out of your exhaust on start up but that is dependent on the weather. All 3 of our vehicles do that. If it's more than that or somewhere else there are 2 recent threads on blue smoke and white smoke. Good luck.

 

[Ultimateone]

search...

 

[dragonacc]

Seriously...? Its on the first page still.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18671

Maybe someone else will summerize, otherwise guess you gotta read.

 

[lisandra]

Seriously...? Its on the first page still.

http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18671

Maybe someone else will summerize, otherwise guess you gotta read.

Well, that's blue smoke, i saw that thread. I didnt eead the 41 pages of it but blue smoke is oil, period. White smoke is something else.

 

[ronv95]

I'd bet money it's the same issue because my smoke was more white to me than blue, but it came about when I switched to a catless dp. I bumped the idle to 900, switched to rotella, put on a catch-can and check valve and had no issues for probably 7k now.

 

[lisandra]

I'd bet money it's the same issue because my smoke was more white to me than blue, but it came about when I switched to a catless dp. I bumped the idle to 900, switched to rotella, put on a catch-can and check valve and had no issues for probably 7k now.

thank you for the answer, im already on rotella, stock dp but no catch can. Ill get one asap

 

[ronv95]

thank you for the answer, im already on rotella, stock dp but no catch can. Ill get one asap

No problem, hope it helps.

 

[lisandra]

No problem, hope it helps.

you have the baffled mishimoto right? you installed it yourself?

 

[dragonacc]

you have the baffled mishimoto right? you installed it yourself?

You should read the thread or at least the last couple pages. The catch can won't fix the problem by itself...

 

[lisandra]

You should read the thread or at least the last couple pages. The catch can won't fix the problem by itself...

Will do

 

[Edkiefer]

lisandra

Need more info , when is it smoking , when its cold in morning , after hard boosting and letting off .
Its going to be hard to know w/o more info .
With the oil smoking, this seems to get trigger more with A/C on, cause your vacuum drops , so seems it could be some pressure building up at low idle speed in crankcase .

On water/coolant if your worried , what you could do is put piece of tape on your coolant tank .
then in morning put a cold mark on tape (make sure car is level ) , do the same when hot .
now you have two reference marks and should not go down over time , week, month etc (pull tape off when testing done).
There are also things to look for if you had coolant leaking into combustion (bad head gasket/head ) .
Your coolant temp can move fast with load put on engine , sometimes you can see bubbles in coolant system from expansion tank or rad cap but its really hard to tell w/o proper tests if it just small amount .

All that said, I doubt you have issue with so new car, these look to have nice head gaskets .

 

[ronv95]

you have the baffled mishimoto right? you installed it yourself?

Yeah it's fairly simple, I was able to install it without having to get under the car...if you have small hand it's possible. I also installed a one way check valve after the catch can. That and switching to rotella and bumping the idle in my tune to 900rpms solved it for me...you will see in the long thread others actually gutted their pcv.

You want to have a catch can on the car regardless, so it's not a waste of money even if it doesn't solve the issue for you.

 

[lisandra]

Yeah it's fairly simple, I was able to install it without having to get under the car...if you have small hand it's possible. I also installed a one way check valve after the catch can. That and switching to rotella and bumping the idle in my tune to 900rpms solved it for me...you will see in the long thread others actually gutted their pcv.

You want to have a catch can on the car regardless, so it's not a waste of money even if it doesn't solve the issue for you.

A one way check valve seems like a simpler idea than gutting the pcv, or am i wrong? I read a good while of it and quite frankly im getting a bit paranoid. Who did your tune for the idle thing?

 

[wmsky33]

A one way check valve seems like a simpler idea than gutting the pcv, or am i wrong? I read a good while of it and quite frankly im getting a bit paranoid. Who did your tune for the idle thing?

The PCV valve *is* a check valve. If you don't gut it, you shouldn't need to get another check valve. Some people like to add a check valve between the intake manifold and the catch can so that the catch can doesn't see boost pressure when the intake manifold is under boost. That's totally optional though. If the manufacturer of the catch can doesn't include a check valve, it should be because the catch can can handle the boost pressure.

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