woswill

What should i check for when a burning smell comes out the engine after flooring it? I popped the hood when i got home and nothing was steaming or anything :S

ErikElvis

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were you hitting the brakes hard? They can stink.

Optimus_Prime

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Clutch?

ghardester

Smell like burning plastic? Maybe a problem. Or burning oil? Probably just burning some oil drips off the exhaust. Maybe just burned out some carbon build up in the engine.

orangefun

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its called the tires

woswill

That mightve been it.. red lights for the lose

Mr.Powers

I notices the same thing when i got my car.. but when i popped the hood... I could never really smell anything..

I gues the brakes would explain alot

greysteel_M6

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I'm thinking clutch, can you give us more on the smell?

RPM WS6

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Clutch and brakes pretty much smell the same when burning, IMO.

Billiumss

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Mine has always done it too. It started doing it after I installed LT Headers. It's heating the floor boards more and the carpet and sound deadener is heating up a tad to make it smell.

Feel the floor boards/tranny tunnel after running the car hard a few times in a row...

greysteel_M6

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Why would his brakes burn after flooring it? Are you slamming on the brakes after gunning her?

02NHRAtransAm

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MTN_Z

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+1. Same happens to mine with just a cutout.

C Murda

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some ls1s have a tendency to spit oil into the intake under hard accelleration through the pcv system. all depends on what oil you're using and how much you put in there. i know i just recently changed my oil from M1 5w30 to M1 0w40 and i put 6 qrts in instead of 5.5 and first few times i got on it boy did it smell like burning oil...next time ill stick with just 5.5

firechicken76

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i know this is an old thread, but i noticed my car making a smell after flooring it also, i know its not brakes, smells sulfer like, maybe carbon build up? my car isnt a 4th gen also, but its got an ls1, could it have to do with the cats? only seems to do it when i run it up to around 6k

BadGTho

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smells like what burning? oil, coolant, plastic, brakes, clutch?

blue98Z

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Rubber maybe? I know that's what I'd be smelling if it were my car lol.

Gaunt

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Oil smells like a cigar if it gets burned. My rear main seal likes to dump oil on my true duals :/

firechicken76

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smells kinda like rotten eggs, thats why i thought cats.

hndakilr

you may be right, bad cats smell like raw sewage