White smoke from engine bay
 

Hi all, after some spirited running the day before I took my 86 out today and without using high revs a fairly noticable smoke smell started entering the cabin, I checked the engine bay after and quite a lot of white smoke was coming from the bottom of the engine bay.

Here is a video of the issue

Any ideas?

What did it smell like? Hard to tell if it's steam from a coolant leak of smoke from an oil leak. Either way, you will need to pull the bottom cover off and have a look.

quite a strong burning smell

Also check under the car, you might have collected a plastic bag somewhere on the road, now touching some hot part of the engine bay.

I have already seen this happen twice, once on my own BRZ. White smoke and burning smell.


Or it's a leak indeed. Coolant usually smells slightly sweet. Oil does not.

Is that oil I see running down the block in the left side of the shot?

I'll have a look underneath later today for debris/leak!

I am detecting a faint burning oil smell when I sit idle in my car.

What's the update on this?

oil is supposed to be inside the motor, not outside.

did you hit something? run over something? change something? let someone look at something?

the possibilities are nearly endless.

I just found my cam plate has started leaking, you might wanna check that.

do you know a guy with a van?

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I prefer the Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino.

That looks almost like The A Team's van.

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