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Old 05-12-2008, 07:40 PM
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Default How sooty is your tailpipe after tune??

My stainless tip seems to accumulate soot or appears to be running a little rich. I have a wheatley tune and haven't set any codes. It seems to run fine but the tailpipe show that it could be a little too rich. Is everyone else that is running a custom tune have this also? Just wondering if I need a retune??
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Are you checking it out with a heavy right foot? lol, I bet you've been doing some practice wot's!
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Put a spark plug on the tailpipe to burn it off
Yeah mine does that when i do WOT runs
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ahh come on do you really think someone would hammer on it after a performance TUNE!!!!!

yeah mine is like that also...
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Mines like that too but I keep my foot in it. We did some logging at Charlies and it was dead on so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Even stock mine was full of carbon.
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I just noticed for the first time lately, that mine blows out a big puff of dark brown smoke at WOT in first gear, where speeds are low enough for the wind to not blow it away. Not like a hot-rod diesel, but pretty much.
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