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Umby
03-10-2010, 11:28 AM
I've got a 93 Civic CX.

I recently dropped in a JDM ZC motor (D16A6).

The car runs great and my fuel economy still seems normal but over the last 3 or 4 days I've noticed a small puff of black smoke at high rpms or under strain and my tailpipe is collecting a pretty fair amount of soot.

In the last 5000 miles its had fresh NGK plugs and NGK wires, new cap and rotor, and a new fuel filter.

I haven't pulled the plugs to check them yet but as of 2 weeks ago they looked like they were burning perfectly.

The car is running on the factory P05 ECU and has the one-wire o2 sensor.

I'm not getting a CEL and the ECU isn't storing any codes.

I haven't taken it for emissions yet this year so I'm not sure what my levels are.

What are some things that could be causing this?

Theycall_Metue
03-10-2010, 11:44 AM
oil ring

Umby
03-10-2010, 11:50 AM
If you mean psiton ring that's not it. Compression is good and it doesn't comsume a drop of oil. Oil smoke is blueish in color and leaves more of a greasy film(as a Mitsubishi owner you should be well familiar). Something is causing the car to load up on fuel under strain but I don't know enough about how Hondas process information to start troubleshooting.

Theycall_Metue
03-11-2010, 09:50 AM
theres 3 rings, oil ring and 2 compression ring. if the oil ring is bad, oil is getting into the combustion chamber and burning leaving black smoke ( more noticeable at high rpm)

blueish i think is running rich? or lean?

Mitsubishi burns oil yes, but most are not noticeable like in the eclipse i use to own

Umby
03-11-2010, 09:53 AM
Blue smoke is oil. Black smoke is carbon being created by an excess of unburned fuel. My car is running rich at high rpm... Not burning oil.

Barefoot
03-11-2010, 09:56 AM
what ecu

Theycall_Metue
03-11-2010, 09:58 AM
nvm

Umby
03-11-2010, 09:58 AM
P05

Umby
03-11-2010, 10:03 AM
nvm Whatever man

Theycall_Metue
03-11-2010, 10:28 AM
no you were right
rich = black
oil = blue

but you said your running rich