[alfa] Smoking GTV6

[John Brase <jbrase@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday afternoon I got caught in a traffic snarl on the interstate. 
I was stopped, or creeping, with the car idling for nearly an hour till 
I found a traffic report telling me the interstate was closed due to a 
big crash.  At that point I decided the best option was to ignore the 
legal niceties and drive through the median and escape in the other 
direction.  When I accelerated the car laid down one of the biggest 
smoke screens I've ever seen.  (Does anyone remember the ALFA powered 
Indy Car blowing up - which it did regularly?  It was that kind of 
smokescreen.)  My wife was several cars behind me in the queue and she 
said it looked to her like the car was on fire.  It quit smoking by the 
time I got through the gears and up to around 80mph.  I can repeat this 
behavior, in a somewhat less dramatic way, by letting the car idle for 
several minutes and then revving the motor.  My guess is that this is a 
symptom of worn valve guides, but that is just a stab in the dark.  Any 
other ideas?  I think the car has 60-70k miles on it (the speedo was 
broken for a while) and runs well with no obvious motor related 
problems.  Oil consumption verges on the intolerable but I always 
attributed that to the old, leaky tensioner.

John
Indy
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