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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:19 PM
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just bought a '00 trans am ws6...it has headers with no cats slp lid and other little bolt ons..billy lawer tune....if i run the car up around the rev limiter and keep my foot in it it will smoke when i let off and if i get back in it its smokes a little right then...my guess is that for the pcv catch can it has a air tool filter...car still runs like a top but i would like to know why it smokes....if i rev it up that high it will also smoke a bit...car has 90k on it...PLEASE HELP!!!
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:23 PM
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What color is the smoke??
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:31 PM
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the smoke is white..its definetly oil smoke because if i do a bunch of it i have to add oil
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:34 PM
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i personally think that its the pcv catch can with the air tool filter on it
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:39 PM
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You don't have cats... It's the unburnt fuel.. And if you are reving the absolute dog **** out of it, then it could be oil.. everyone knows that the good ole LS1 can be notorious for some oil burning... halfway due for an oil change and the "oil low" light came on... I had been raping it every day and this was the reason..
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:43 PM
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nope no cats...still seems like its oil smoke when i am going also not just reving....and i do have to add oil to it with much hell raising
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 08:57 PM
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did you buy justins car?
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 09:22 PM
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yea how did you know that
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 11:43 PM
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the smoke is white..its definetly oil smoke because if i do a bunch of it i have to add oil
White smoke is usually a head gasket or antifreeze getting into the combustion chambers somehow.....an oil smoke will have a blue color to it
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Old Mar 26, 2008 | 12:01 AM
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Well it's probably a combination of things. No cat's, headers, 90K miles and revving it you probably will see some smoke. Unless you are losing oil or coolant I wouldn't worry about it.
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it is your pcv system! if it was black smoke it would be normal, like when i do canyan craving my buddy told me my car had black smoke coming out the back, so later i researched and its perfectly normal since i have no cats and since im downshifting
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Old Mar 26, 2008 | 06:43 AM
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so what should i do about the pcv system..i do eventually lose oil from the smoke

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my pcv system runs to a catch can because i puke a little oil around the 6700rpm mark. just grab a moroso catch can and make a line to it with a filter on top
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i did the SMH pcv mod along with a catch can and with that 2 filters and one more filter for the throttle body breather from the valve cover
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Old Mar 26, 2008 | 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by chase3
the smoke is white..its definetly oil smoke because if i do a bunch of it i have to add oil
definitely not...

blue smoke = Oil
White smoke = coolant
black smoke = (too much) fuel
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:37 PM
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alright i am almost positive its the pcv...i got someone to look at the smoke while i was on it...its blue....it just looked white in the rearview mirror....CAN YOU CHANGE THE LOCATION OF WHERE THE PCV PICKS UP AT?????
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try the PCV first we had a similar car come into our shop doing the same thing. The car ran fine under normal driving and still ran like a scalded dog. compression and leak down tests showed that everything was normal with the car. The owner purchased the car from an older gentleman who didnt drive the car that much and drove it fairly easy. We removed the cats off the car and it started puffing blue smoke under decelleration at high rpms. We changed the pcv and it helped a good bit. But it was still blowing a little blue smoke under deceleration. The customer decided to do a cam swap and the problem got worse. In order to sum it up we changed the valve guide seals on the car and it eliminated the problem. we came to the conclusion that since it wasnt driven very often or hard the valve seals got brittle and hard. I believe you can get the viton seals for 20 bucks. what happens is when you decelerate it creates dead cylinder pressure drawing oil through the bad seals. We spoke with a few shops and it seems the 853 head cars seem to be bad about doing this check the casting number on the heads. Nothing a cam swap and seal change wont fix. Try the PCV first if that doesnt work that would be my guess.
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Old Apr 4, 2008 | 03:10 PM
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thanks for the tip..i put a new pcv valve on it and it cut the smoke in half...i have one more idea for the pcv and if that doesnt work i will do as you said.....thanks alot!!!!
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