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Old 04-04-2023, 08:04 PM   #12
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Rgr that. Sorry you're getting a face full of smoke just looking into the engine bay. Definitely not a fun experience.

Fun story for you, back when I purchased my first FR-S in December of 2012, I was driving it for the very first time (didn't test drive it - already knew it was going to feel perfectly amazing) off the dealer lot and got a few miles away to a stop light.

Suddenly I notice whisps of white smoke coming out of the right hand side of the engine bay. WTF?! Is my brand new car ON FIRE or something? No no no, that couldn't be. I told myself maybe it's just "release agents" evaporating or something. lol.

It ended up being the leaking cam plate on the passenger rear side of the engine, dripping oil down onto the hot overpipe. Flawed from the factory with 13 miles on it!

I ended up working with Raceseng to test their prototype cam plate before it was released, and I validated their part's successful fixing of the issue!
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