smokey car, On de-acceleration I get smoke from my tail pipe :( Options

[mitchdiego1]

Hi all, I am new here. So wished I found this site years ago. Lots of good info!!!! Any way, I am getting a lot of smoke on de-acceleration after my 1976 2.0L has warmed up. I was thinking my oil rings were sticking. Also thinking maybe valve guides? The engine was rebuilt in 2000 and I really only drove it until 2005 as a daily driver. The transmission went bad and it wasn't really driven. House and 2 teenage daughters came first. I would putt around at least once a month. I could go on and on so longer story short I have been driving it since 2015 and it has been smoking like I said. A little on acceleration not bad though. Any info would help. Other than that it runs great and my 914 is going into the shop soon for new paint so I am going to pull the engine and transmission. (PS I originally posted this in the wrong forum. duh)

[Cairo94507]

Nice progress. Do yourself a huge favor and remove the bumpers, lights, rockers, strip the vinyl from the sail panels. Prepare those areas well and your paint job will go to the next level. Be sure to prepare the fender well lips too. Seems the inner lip is often over looked and after the car is painted it really shows up. Also the bottoms of the doors and fenders- the parts you really do not see unless you lay on the ground. Little bit of a pain to prepare if you do not have a lift or the car up on blocks, but well worth the effort.

Also, please carefully tape any areas you do not want to get paint on. Overspray is a dead give away of a low budget, hap-hazard job. Buy good quality tape (3M) and get a good roll of painters paper so the paint does not bleed through. Tape tightly so overspray does not get into the trunks, interior, etc. Do not assume having the trunk closed will keep overspray from contaminating the interior of the trunk. Tape and paper the inside of the trunk then close the trunk. Be sure to tape off any holes that overspray will enter. Locks, mirrors, door handles, emblems, trim etc. Tape them off from the back. Be sure to clean all those areas throughly first then tape. That way when you unmask, you don't have to then clean them with fresh paint in the area.

Paint work is 90% about the prep work really. Spraying color is relatively simple with good equipment and a bit of practice. Which brings me to another point, if you have not sprayed cars before, try to find and old hood, door, what ever to practice on first. Air pressure settings and the distance from the panel as well as speed at which you move are all pretty critical to a good job. Check between coats for any contaminants, dirt in the paint. Have some really fine sandpaper/scuff pad to clean those spots up before you apply the next coat. You would be surprised how much junk can get in the paint if you don't have a paint booth.

I painted my 1st 914 in my friend's garage. We cleaned the garage really well first, blew it out to get all of the cobwebs, etc. out. Took everything we could out of the garage for maximum room and to avoid any overspray getting on stuff. We then draped the walls with cheap painter's plastic tarps to cover the walls and make the garage as clean as possible. Also propped a residential fan into a garage window and then sealed the rest of the window with plastic to suck air/dust out of the garage as I painted. I borrowed a few rolling lights from my cousin's body shop to make sure I had no shadows when painting. Then the next day we wet the floor down with a hose before we began spraying to keep dust from blowing up off the floor as I walked around shooting color. Then I wiped the car down 3 times with wax and grease remover before finally applying color. I used a new rag each time and then finally a tack cloth. Don't forget a respirator and a paint suit. That way you keep your lungs clean and a paint suit keeps junk from falling off your clothing as you work. The end result was a terrific paint job that looked like glass once I color sanded, cut and polished. The spraying was the easy part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[mitchdiego1]

Nice progress. Do yourself a huge favor and remove the bumpers, lights, rockers, strip the vinyl from the sail panels. Prepare those areas well and your paint job will go to the next level. Be sure to prepare the fender well lips too. Seems the inner lip is often over looked and after the car is painted it really shows up. Also the bottoms of the doors and fenders- the parts you really do not see unless you lay on the ground. Little bit of a pain to prepare if you do not have a lift or the car up on blocks, but well worth the effort.

Also, please carefully tape any areas you do not want to get paint on. Overspray is a dead give away of a low budget, hap-hazard job. Buy good quality tape (3M) and get a good roll of painters paper so the paint does not bleed through. Tape tightly so overspray does not get into the trunks, interior, etc. Do not assume having the trunk closed will keep overspray from contaminating the interior of the trunk. Tape and paper the inside of the trunk then close the trunk. Be sure to tape off any holes that overspray will enter. Locks, mirrors, door handles, emblems, trim etc. Tape them off from the back. Be sure to clean all those areas throughly first then tape. That way when you unmask, you don't have to then clean them with fresh paint in the area.

Paint work is 90% about the prep work really. Spraying color is relatively simple with good equipment and a bit of practice. Which brings me to another point, if you have not sprayed cars before, try to find and old hood, door, what ever to practice on first. Air pressure settings and the distance from the panel as well as speed at which you move are all pretty critical to a good job. Check between coats for any contaminants, dirt in the paint. Have some really fine sandpaper/scuff pad to clean those spots up before you apply the next coat. You would be surprised how much junk can get in the paint if you don't have a paint booth.

I painted my 1st 914 in my friend's garage. We cleaned the garage really well first, blew it out to get all of the cobwebs, etc. out. Took everything we could out of the garage for maximum room and to avoid any overspray getting on stuff. We then draped the walls with cheap painter's plastic tarps to cover the walls and make the garage as clean as possible. Also propped a residential fan into a garage window and then sealed the rest of the window with plastic to suck air/dust out of the garage as I painted. I borrowed a few rolling lights from my cousin's body shop to make sure I had no shadows when painting. Then the next day we wet the floor down with a hose before we began spraying to keep dust from blowing up off the floor as I walked around shooting color. Then I wiped the car down 3 times with wax and grease remover before finally applying color. I used a new rag each time and then finally a tack cloth. Don't forget a respirator and a paint suit. That way you keep your lungs clean and a paint suit keeps junk from falling off your clothing as you work. The end result was a terrific paint job that looked like glass once I color sanded, cut and polished. The spraying was the easy part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)