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One thing I noticed about nearly all of your cars was that your exhaust tips were all really sooty.
Mine are always totally clean (and I don't clean them!).
What gives? Do you all drive around at full throttle all the time? Is it at WOT that the computer says heck with the a/f metering and just lets as much fuel and air dump into the cylinders as possible, thereby resulting in a rich condition that produces black smoke/soot?
Should I be concerned that my car doesn't seem to do this? I did notice on my trip that the car seemed down on power quite significantly. I used full throttle too on the run up to Darren's....
Comments appreciated.
Kerry
99 SVT Contour Silver Frost, #365/2760, DMD
98 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Tiptronic, 30V -- SOLD!
91 Isuzu Impulse XS Kammback, Handling By Lotus
Victoria, BC, Canada
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My car has always run extremely rich. Before fighting Ford to replace my MAF I dyno'd and had an A/F ratio of 9.5:1. My gas mileage sucks still and the problem seems to have returned to my car. Before my waranty runs out I plan to dyno the car again and give Ford a copy of the A/F ratio that was found. I do drive my car very hard a lot of the time. About half of my miles are freeway miles and the other half has a lot of dips into the secondaries with a lot of trips to redline. 
2004 Focus PZEV 2.3L - KW sport suspension, SP camber plates, Eibach front swaybar, FS intake, FS Stealth exhaust, 3.82 Final, Torsen ATB, Prothane MM insert, E1 CSVT wheels
1/4 mile - 15.201@89.4mph
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hey Kerry! I noticed that too..... my exhaust tips looked like they are always polished!? Maybe our Canadian gas is just cleaner ......... 
Rageboy
Black 99 SVT
#1883/2760
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Mine have been squeaky clean for like three weeks!
Ummm, oh. Wait a minute.
Damn differential.
'98 SVT Contour, in at least 639 pieces 
4 Speed MTX...synchro and shift fork replacement in progress 
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what the hell .. I use the same gas, but mine is dirty at the tips.. Its like rusting.. or something.. ;( Originally posted by Rageboy:
hey Kerry!
I noticed that too..... my exhaust tips looked like they are always polished!? Maybe our Canadian gas is just cleaner .........
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