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Topic #49786 9 posts Started by massbrandon
Ok guys I will try to get a sound clip of my car but I don't even know if you guys would be able to hear it. When I drive my car and until around 2k RPM my car makes a kind of cat like purring sound. I know that sounds completely off the wall but thats the closest thing I can compare it to. It does it all the time and really doesn't go away until I get above something like 2500RPM. Any help on this would be great. I have noticed that when I start my car in the mornings it seems like there is more smoke than usual (I know my valve seals cause this but it seems like there is more smoke than usual coming out.)
As far as the smoke goes, you could be right. What's your mileage? The smoke could be a number of things.

NASA/SCCA RX-7....currently under the knife92 Civic hatch B16 - Sold10th anniv RX-7 - RIPThe Slow Celica - Sold...and then crushed crushed due to street racing.Quote from Seinfeild: George's Boss reading a magazine: "People magazine's most beautiful people. Oh and a Celica...nothin wrong with that!"
Whoa, well you're getting up there. Not to say the engine is going to blow, but she just needs her maintance. Have you had your timing belt and water pump done yet? Fuild's flushed? Front end check?

Sorry, I know I'm getting off topic, just trying to help.

NASA/SCCA RX-7....currently under the knife92 Civic hatch B16 - Sold10th anniv RX-7 - RIPThe Slow Celica - Sold...and then crushed crushed due to street racing.Quote from Seinfeild: George's Boss reading a magazine: "People magazine's most beautiful people. Oh and a Celica...nothin wrong with that!"
My timing belt and water pump were done no more than 6 months ago. I keep the oil changed every 3k miles, and I just had my radiator flushed right before the timing belt and water pump.
Do you still have the stock 5SFE?
Are you in Ma, and if so where?
At this point I need to see/ at least hear the engine. I've got a lot of ideas as to what it could be, but I don't wanna give you a stroke. Odds are its just a maintance issue.

NASA/SCCA RX-7....currently under the knife92 Civic hatch B16 - Sold10th anniv RX-7 - RIPThe Slow Celica - Sold...and then crushed crushed due to street racing.Quote from Seinfeild: George's Boss reading a magazine: "People magazine's most beautiful people. Oh and a Celica...nothin wrong with that!"
my car has 191,000 miles on it ad it throws smoke only when i turn it on in the mornings.....could this be because of bad fluids that I have in the car??
Yeah guys Im in Mass, I'm up near Nashua New Hampshire. I will try to get a sound clip today for you. Yeah my 5sfe is still stock except for intake.