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Is it normal for exhaust wrap to smoke?
JoelP - 4/3/23 at 04:28 PM

It's been parked up for maybe 10 weeks. Trying to burn off the old fuel to replace. Is it normal for the wrap to smoke badly?!


snippy - 4/3/23 at 04:53 PM

If it's new wrap it will smoke lots the first time you run the engine to temperature. It will settle down after 2nd engine run usually. If it's old wrap i can only think you may have spilled something on it and it's burning it off?


JoelP - 4/3/23 at 05:04 PM

Yeah, new last year but hundreds of miles on it since. The smoke stings the eyes! I'll just run it off I think!


coyoteboy - 4/3/23 at 05:57 PM

Mine smoked every time it got damp. Leave the car for a week, start it up, smoke and stinging eyes until it dried


JoelP - 5/3/23 at 05:02 PM

That's pretty much it I think. Strangely, the stuff I put on 2 headers last year didn't smoke, just the original on the other 2. It got better with time. It's another 7 weeks til I'll tax it, just didn't want it dead for 7 years like the last time I left it all winter!