No cats = always smell like gas?
07-12-2007, 07:02 AM
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It stinks to high heaven. They ALL do. The people behind you will have teary eyes. Whether it bothers you in the car is another matter, and varies from car to car and person to person.
Don't do it. It's just another kind of fart can, only with bad smell instead of bad noise.
Don't do it. It's just another kind of fart can, only with bad smell instead of bad noise.
07-12-2007, 03:46 PM
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damn if your car is making you get tears in your eyes, theres something seriously off with the tune or your running a 454 carb ls1 or something huge. My car has a slight smell at times, but its not even overwhelming. My wife complains about everything and she hasn't smelled it yet and its been hot out!
07-12-2007, 03:56 PM
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my will make your eyes water if your the car behind it and i lay on it doesnt smell bad to me but according to the gf it smells bad i like it and so do all my friends lol smells like a real race car
07-12-2007, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
see, mine is dumped and i only smell it if im stopped. even then its not overwhelming. im tuned also.
But I really notice it now that my Cam is in, especially at a light.
Boy do I love that smell!!!!!!!!!!!from my car, I wish BWW could say that about his girls
07-12-2007, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by MeentSS02
Mine is tuned, with the stock cam and everything, but really only smells when I'm in my garage. After getting my new truck, I didn't realize how much it smelled...my truck doesn't smell like anything (except rice burning). My girlfriend has never complained, so I never worried about it.
07-12-2007, 09:05 PM
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mine's tuned to the max but i think the cam has a lot of impact on the variability between people here. i've grown to like the smell except when i idle in the garage. it's over powering then... but then again you shouldn't be breathing that anyways. i consider it a canary in the coal mine 
07-12-2007, 09:21 PM
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All you guys with cams with any amount of overlap, thats why it smells. Raw fuel in the exhaust. Cant tune it out completely. You can reduce it by tuning, but you cant make it go away.
With a stock cam, and no cats, you should have very little smell. These cars burn fairly clean without the cats. You will get some smell, but nothing like a cam with some overlap.
With a stock cam, and no cats, you should have very little smell. These cars burn fairly clean without the cats. You will get some smell, but nothing like a cam with some overlap.
07-12-2007, 09:49 PM
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Mine does smell but it is not a bad smell in my opinion. I have lt's no cats, and loudmouth catback, now switched to a different muffler. It smells slightly less now with the new actual muffler lol. But have not tuned it yet because it is getting blown next week, and then comes all the tuning. It is definetely running rich bc I never had it tuned throughout my mods. Just was lazy and did not want to have to pay to have it dynoed twice. Now I gotta real reason to get it tuned.
07-13-2007, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by deanasdork
my girl is always complaing when i get home as well. i come into the house from the garage and shes like geezus... its smells like gas/exhaust
it's the other unleaded.but seriously i have the same smell. at a stop light with the windows up it gets into the car.
But do you use leaded on your car,BWW? Or can we? I dont have cats, will my o2's go to ****?