gasoline odor normal?

edub370 · 07-25-2012, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Z_ealot

did a search of the forum and couldnt turn up anything on this so thought i'd ask here....anyone else have a gasoline odor that comes from their Z when it's warming up? had the smell ever since i got it new and mostly goes away after warm up, but seems like it's running a little rich. would a tune help with this or is it just something normal for the Z?

a)does your car have cats?

b) even if it doesnt, cars runs rich at idle. its called open loop. basically what your car does is ignore the signal from the o2 sensor when first turned on. it strictly works from signals based on your maf, and whatever has been pre programmed into the cars ecu to ensure it gets to proper operating temp quicky. that means warming up the cat, coolant, or any other parameters that the ecu is looking for. once those are met then the car goes into closed loop. which means the car then starts talking to the o2 sensor to see what kind of adjustments need to be made to optomize your afr and engines performance.

thats why all vehicles idle higher/rougher and smell like gas more when they first start. that gets exagerated when you remove the cats because any excess fuel that is left unburnt after combustion can no longer be ignited before exiting the tailpipe

fuct · 07-25-2012, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by edub370

a)does your car have cats?

b) even if it doesnt, cars runs rich at idle. its called open loop. basically what your car does is ignore the signal from the o2 sensor when first turned on. it strictly works from signals based on your maf, and whatever has been pre programmed into the cars ecu to ensure it gets to proper operating temp quicky. that means warming up the cat, coolant, or any other parameters that the ecu is looking for. once those are met then the car goes into closed loop. which means the car then starts talking to the o2 sensor to see what kind of adjustments need to be made to optomize your afr and engines performance.

thats why all vehicles idle higher/rougher and smell like gas more when they first start. that gets exagerated when you remove the cats because any excess fuel that is left unburnt after combustion can no longer be ignited before exiting the tailpipe

the open loop system is also used to warm the cats up to proper operating temps.

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