visible smoke and black smoke on tailpipe

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1PONYBEAST
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I have a 1995 Nissan altima, 5spd manual. I recently added a cold air intake, and after doing it car runs good, untill I was checking the acceleration, and rev the engine pretty high, and suddenly I heard a POP, loud enough to hear over the high rpm, then I noticed that the idle changed, its a little rough, and noticed too that, there's smoke coming off the tailpipe(never seen that before in my car), and I also noticed that the smoke leaves a black stuff on the tailpipe........can you please tell me what I did/broke, and how to fix it. the engine now runs pretty weak on low RPM, and runs strong on high RPM, but still makes the black smoke.
Sep 13, 2007 at 4:54 PM
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[quote:74a312b216="1ponybeast"]I have a 1995 Nissan altima, 5spd manual. I recently added a cold air intake, and after doing it car runs good, untill I was checking the acceleration, and rev the engine pretty high, and suddenly I heard a POP, loud enough to hear over the high rpm, then I noticed that the idle changed, its a little rough, and noticed too that, there's smoke coming off the tailpipe(never seen that before in my car), and I also noticed that the smoke leaves a black stuff on the tailpipe........can you please tell me what I did/broke, and how to fix it. the engine now runs pretty weak on low RPM, and runs strong on high RPM, but still makes the black smoke.[/quote:74a312b216]

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Your problem here is you're burning more fuel than oxygen, probably what happened here is you popped a carbon during the high rev and went towards the injector/s pintle holding it open or a punctured pressure regulator. I might be wrong but I'll start there.

You need a scan tool to view the serial data stream to find out what is really happening with the engine management system.
Sep 13, 2007 at 10:35 PM
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