Burnt Plastic smell when drive over 4000 RPM
StealthSonic
10-29-2007, 10:02 PM
Hi guys, I recently noticed a wierd plastic burnt smell when I drive my car over 4000 rpm. It smells like hot engine oil or tranny oil and I can only smell it while driving over 4000 rpm for more than 30sec. Below that I won't smell it even if I drive my car for over an hour.
Smell comes into the cockpit and goes away in few minutes after I lower the rpm. Something is leaking?? Temperature guage is normal and radiator fluid is green and full.
I just had my oil and filter changed lastweek and I checked the oil level yesterday and it was between two dots on the dip stick. No smoke coming out of exhaust and I'm pretty sure I did a very clean oil change (not a single drip drip onto the manifold B pipe.)
Also no rough idle sound or trace of oil leaking in the engine bay.
It just seems strange to me.
Any one wanna give a shot?
Smell comes into the cockpit and goes away in few minutes after I lower the rpm. Something is leaking?? Temperature guage is normal and radiator fluid is green and full.
I just had my oil and filter changed lastweek and I checked the oil level yesterday and it was between two dots on the dip stick. No smoke coming out of exhaust and I'm pretty sure I did a very clean oil change (not a single drip drip onto the manifold B pipe.)
Also no rough idle sound or trace of oil leaking in the engine bay.
It just seems strange to me.
Any one wanna give a shot?
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