Lots of soot.......

[mintyduck]

Hi,

 

Just bought a VRS - It was nice and clean when I bought it however....

 

Running a CP Turbo / Unknown Remap and Decat Milltek it's very sooty...(insert your jokes)

 

I drove it with a freinds car on a straight through exhaust which is super super loud and his soot'd less

 

I did notice more soot when I was in the lower gear ranges etc.

 

Are there many options or is this diesel ownership?

 

Cheers
Minty

 

 

[theezenutz]

Depends on your mapping I would of thought. I followed a fellow Vrs driver once and thought I'd entered into wacky races with the amount that came out of his tail pipe, hardly anything comes out of mine.

[SKYHAWK]

look for a boost leak if it ain't 1 then its a crap map

[Jrjg]

Overfuelling usually, the excess fuel being burnt off as smoke.
I would of thought it was the map.

JRJG

[mintyduck]

It's going in shortly I'm just fitting some TT brakes and suspension.

 

I can't live with the whacky races effect.

 

I can live with the clio 200/seat leon driver faces as I went past them in a cloud of smoke. Especially the clio dude he was practically in my back seat till I pressed the boost button.

 

goodbye........have some soot to go with that         

[faboka vrs]

It'll be due to the amount of fuel requested in the map. The previous owner may have requested it to be like that.

[stevobeavo]

Doesn't excess fueling increase exhaust temperatures Which over time can damage manifolds and warp the head or is that only on petrol?

[Jrjg]

It'll be due to the amount of fuel requested in the map. The previous owner may have requested it to be like that.

I'm slowly learning :clap:

JRJG

[coskev]

For some reason, beyond my understanding, some people think its clever/funny/a good thing to leave clouds of smoke everywhere from a tuned derv :(

[giandougl]

No tuning on my old Fabia Vrs (bog standard) , but pedal to the metal the car behind disappears for a second or two, then as the smoke clears I find

he has dropped back, as his vision has been impaired by my heavy right foot..LOL

[softscoop]

My old vRS smoked terribly when first mapped.

 

One of joins on the boost pipes was coming apart under load, so I was losing boost, hence the over-fuelling.

 

Fixed it properly, and no more smoke

[mintyduck]

I'll take it all as advice so thanks for posting.

 

I'm planning a health check and remap in the near furture