Hey, just noticed (another) problem with the ol' L98 VE SS-V. Even after prolonged driving, the car still gives off steam from the exhaust. Fair enough if in the morning and it's cold and it steams up a bit from the condensation, but after driving about 4 hours on the freeway (Albury to Melbourne), I stopped at a set of traffic lights and it's still steaming from the exhaust. Ambient temp was about 10-degrees, but didn't seem to notice other cars steaming. Does this sound like a cracked head gasket or am I jsut being paranoid? Anyone else notice their VEs steaming from the exhaust more often than not?
Yep me too, hot air outta exhaust into cold air = steamy. Don't know why other cars don't do it as much?
you running any fuel with Ethanol in it? You should see E85 on a cold day, billows out like a chimney.
Thanks for the quick reply guys. Hmmm, that's what I was thinking. How come no other cars (new or old) bellows out steam like our VEs?
You can't see steam......it's a gas. Water vapor is coming out of your exhaust. Do you check your coolant level (and oil) on a regular basis?
He's being pedantic, Blind Freddy knows the way you identify the presence of steam at Standard Temperature and Pressure is only by the evidence of water vapour. Whether the exhaust gas contains steam (water vapour above boiling temperature) as well as water vapour (below boiling temperature) is moot. It's fricken steam!!
Did you get water in there recently from a car wash or similar? I once got carried away with cleaning my exhaust tips and got quite a bit of water in there. It steamed like crazy for weeks after that. Seems to have settled down a bit now though...
I think it's just the temperature the VE runs at. If I had seen the sort of temps I get now from my old LS1, I'd be pulling it off the road for overheating. From memory the fans don't even come on til 108 degrees.
mine blows "steam" all the time after ive been driving for ages. ive thought the same thing; why not other cars???
No wonder a mild steel exhaust only lasts a couple of years on e85... check the condensation. [video=youtube_share;4r8PPNSS9GU]http://youtu.be/4r8PPNSS9GU[/video] I warmed it up for about five minutes, drove around the block, up the park, around the car park, still spittin!
