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Cold engine?

I get white smoke in the morning.

I have no cat, though.

 

when the engine warms up...it goes away? Also, w/ the coolant in the engine thing, does it go away or always stay there?

I had a second opionion look at it and we both think the smoke looks white, and kind of evaporates as it gets in the air...

When I start the car it is just coming out of the exhaust at a decent pace, but when I rev it up, big puffs of it come out...

 

Cold exhaust gases..

Did you check your coolant yet?

 

yeah, it was a little bit low so i filled it to the full line...

 

I don't think coolant was your problem.

If you can see it, and it looks like its about half way up the tank, and you filled it with distilled water and the light went, you're fine.

Gurgling/popping/loss of power. Check your CAT.

 

Ok, just put a new borla exhaust and RP supercat on like...2 weeks ago..

But, I think you may have been right about the smoke...i took the car up the road a couple of times just now and everything is perfect again..

Idk what was going on,but I'm guessing cleaning the MAF or the plug wires, or topping off the coolant fixed it.

Seems strange, because after I did all of that stuff it was still running bad for a bit but now it came out of it and I took 3 or 4 passes up my road...running strong as ever

 

and the battery thing really confuses me....I charged it all day yesterday and it wouldnt start, and now its started w/ absolutely no problems all day..

 

glad it all worked out for you

 

Can you show us a close up of the old plugs?

 

Battery terminal connection loose ??????

 

I checked the connections...all seem to be good. Still confuses me, drove the car all night not a single problem.

I changed the plugs last week and they looked like crap... dont know if they got thrown away...if i can find them ill post a pic.

 

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I had white smoke coming heavily out of my exhaust tonight after a 4-5 second hold in first gear at low throttle at 6-7k rpm... then went WOT. Rpm meter bounced around in a 1000k rpm area and there was a huge loss of power. This has happened before maybe 8 or 9 months ago. Any ideas?

Car is 2005 MT, 46000 miles.

 

Please give us the history on your car. The service it's had parts replaced. Did you do all four coils , wires and plugs? Type of driving it gets(long commutes, short trip), fuel used(reg or prem), ever flooded. Just any thing that you can add.

 

Remove two lead plugs.
Press finger over spark plug hole.
Have friend spin the engine.

Compression?

 

Mazda replaced all 4 plugs/wires and coils about 3000 miles ago. I daily drive about 8 miles to work and then fairly shorts trips otherwise. I redline as much as possible after she's warm. I use 93 octane all the time and it's never been flooded as long as i've been the owner.. almost 2 years. I have a theory, although I dont have much mechanical knowledge, that after going low throttle in high rpm for a few seconds excess oil and fuel can remain in the engine.. and then when suddenly going to high or wide open throttle it can't burn it all correctly and it comes out as all the smoke.

 

The bump.