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Old 01-09-2011, 03:35 AM   #1
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I'm pretty sure the burning smell is the engine burning off built up carbon from regular use. Think of it like a stream collecting sediment, the stream being your engine and the sediment being carbon. During a flood (high rev/use/throttle what have you) the increase in water volume will wash away all the buiilt up sediment leaving the riverbed as clear as before.
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Old 01-09-2011, 02:12 PM   #2
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I'm pretty sure the burning smell is the engine burning off built up carbon from regular use. Think of it like a stream collecting sediment, the stream being your engine and the sediment being carbon. During a flood (high rev/use/throttle what have you) the increase in water volume will wash away all the buiilt up sediment leaving the riverbed as clear as before.
It's the plastice intake manifold . Several times when this occurred I pulled off to the side of the road , popped the hood , and followed my nose ( ) to locate the source , that being the manifold .
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