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Old 02-12-2007, 09:41 AM
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so we've noticed that when you get the tuning pretty good, it makes a distinct "burning pineapple" smell...



having lived in CA forever, and smogged every rx7 ive ever had, i can tell you if it will pass by standing behind it, i dont know if i trust my nose to make max power though
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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='858671' date='Feb 12 2007, 07:41 AM

so we've noticed that when you get the tuning pretty good, it makes a distinct "burning pineapple" smell...



having lived in CA forever, and smogged every rx7 ive ever had, i can tell you if it will pass by standing behind it, i dont know if i trust my nose to make max power though




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This is not good. I think this thread is intended to be serious.



I think if you could add a couple more smells to the "olfactory tuning continuum", let's say a "burnt toast" kind of smell for the "too lean" condition, and an "eye-watering gas smell" for the "too rich" condition, then we might truly have some useful information.



I'm more interested in tuning at WOT than idle. How fast can you run?
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MMMM



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Smelled RAW GAS

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do i smell popcorn?
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i was behind a chevelle yesterday, and he was on it, and it smelled like burning styrofoam, i'm thinking it was too rich?
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also you can smell a burning cat smell, its sharp, whereas a normal cat smell, is/feels like the air coming out of a dryer



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i smelled an apex seal that came out the exhaust pipe once. It smelled like garlic bread.



I think it was running lean.
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my haltech laptop smells like unburned gas
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