Russ M
Enthusiast
I am experiencing a very strange occurrence with my Viper, and am hopping someone out there knows what the problem is. The vehicle is a 99 RT with exhaust and air filters with just over 10k miles on it.
The main role for this car is a weekend canyon warrior, and it serves its purpose very well I might add.
The last 2 canyon runs the snake was on it started to smoke out of the passenger bank of cylinders blue smoke. Now the interesting thing is that it only does it after the run not during. Basically when I come to a stop and let it cool down(few min) after the stretch it is fine. But when I start driving it again even the smallest amount of throttle the smoke appears, and it persists for maybe 20-30 seconds and just disappears without a trace.
The smoking will not occur unless the driving is fairly severe with MANY twisties at high RPM's(4-5.5k). My first thoughts were that the breather is puking some oil into the air box and the engine is sucking it back in, but the drivers side of cylinders is perfectly smoke free and the breather is much closer to it than the left side.
No amount of straight line abuse will make this happen, believe me I tried very hard to replicate it after seeing it the first time. And other than these 2 times that this happened the engine is smoke free.
What can it be? Too much oil? Valve guides?
Thanks for your help...
The main role for this car is a weekend canyon warrior, and it serves its purpose very well I might add.
The last 2 canyon runs the snake was on it started to smoke out of the passenger bank of cylinders blue smoke. Now the interesting thing is that it only does it after the run not during. Basically when I come to a stop and let it cool down(few min) after the stretch it is fine. But when I start driving it again even the smallest amount of throttle the smoke appears, and it persists for maybe 20-30 seconds and just disappears without a trace.
The smoking will not occur unless the driving is fairly severe with MANY twisties at high RPM's(4-5.5k). My first thoughts were that the breather is puking some oil into the air box and the engine is sucking it back in, but the drivers side of cylinders is perfectly smoke free and the breather is much closer to it than the left side.
No amount of straight line abuse will make this happen, believe me I tried very hard to replicate it after seeing it the first time. And other than these 2 times that this happened the engine is smoke free.
What can it be? Too much oil? Valve guides?
Thanks for your help...
