Anyone get brief puff of smoke on hard left hand turns?

 

Do you have a catch can?

 

Nope. Just suspension and R compounds.

 

It blows smoke only on right-hand turns in my experience.

 

oh great, what am I looking at than? Valve seals?

 

It's probably just the ECU learning the colder weather/winter gas. I wouldn't worry about it as long as it's running okay.

 

It seems to be running perfectly fine. I'll probably take it out for a little spin tommarow just to check again. I can't see how the ECU could be doing this? Unless some crazy rich condition at startup caused the smoke but than it would be blueish and not white?

 

I've done this at auto-x.

What I suspect happened is you sucked oil into the intake -right- before you shut it off, such as a hard corner at the end of the course. So when you fire it back up it you suck the oil in and burn it.

 

That is what I am hoping happened but I heard that it happens on right handed turns. In hindsite, the course I was running was almost exclusively left handed turns although there was a quick little right handed jump as you entered the stopbox and jammed on the brakes. Then I drove about 20 feet foward and turned the motor off. Now in hindsite, I can't be sure of the color of the smoke, I recall thinking it was white but now when I think back on it it was more gray, I am not really sure what I saw as I was a bit freaked at the time. Did not help my concentration during my next run.

 

I'm pretty sure its what happened.

High RPM and quickly backing out of the throlle (to brake for example). Right handers usually but not always.