Hey guys,

My 03 Z is my first sports car, and I was just wondering if it is normal to smell a burnt rubber type smell when accelerating the car fairly hard. And no, it's not from peeling out or anything....Thanks.

 

Hmm. Check your oil. When I first got my used '03, I'd get a burt smell when I got on it. Turned out it was almost 2 qts low on oil. Fortunately, I caught it before anything bad happened. I guess they just didn't fill it all the way when the dealer (used car place) changed out the oil.

 

I have an 06 and it has a exhaust smell when i accelerate hard....then it goes away..I dont know what causes it but I dont think it is a big issue

 

more than likely your clutch is on its way out. How does the clutch feel? Spongey? Catches really high? is the car slipping a but under hard accel?

If it smells like rubber but you havent been roasting the tires, I can say its the clutch, 90% sure.

 

Thats what it seems like. Z's roast them at the drags every once in a while. You did say you where driving it hard.

 

same here, I dont think its a big deal either.

when I had my 5at I was driving on the highway and this HUGE kohls bag got under my car, stuck and burned, it smell like burnt rubber for months! check under your car JIC

 

One of your belts is slipping?

 

its ur clutch i had the same problem. on my 05 and i never reported it to the dealer.. sometimes my clutch pedel would stick. and the smell would be awful. and stick in the car for 15 minutes.. liek an *** i never said ne thing to the dealer. and when the clutch went at 6000 miles they said they will not cover it. reguardless of my driving a standard car for 10 yrs... so i had to replace the clutch and flywheel at 6000 miles i went JWT and im gettign sick and tired of that cement truck noise

but if its the same smell i had its ur clutch be careful

 

Same thing happens to me sometimes. I dont think its the clutch (at least in my case) because it doesnt slip or anything. It smells like burnt oil, or exhaust after driving it hard, and then it goes away after a few seconds, not 10 min. What do you guys think, not a big deal, or is time to take her in??

 

maybe its the fire on the pavement when u burn up the streets

 

if it smells kinda like rubber, but more acrid, then its probably your clutch. a few times i feathered my clutch and reved the rpms too high taking off and the clutch got hot and smelled BAD. it stayed in the car for awhile. if it happens every once in awhile its ok, but if you keep doing it your going to seriously shorten the clutch life.

 

what if its just an oil/exhuast smell? Is that a sign of oil consumption??

 

could be the cats?

 

You may just be smelling the rich fuel/exhaust smell. This is normal in the Z durring hard acceleration.

 

Same thing happens to me. I have not figured out what it is but it only happens under WOT. Could be bad, could be normal. Drives fine right now though.

 

I guess its not really a sign of consumption then,at least in my case. the black residue doesnt seem like burnt oil, it looks and feels like carbon build up. So I guess its ok.

 

I have the burning smell when I rev it high up there. It comes out of the vents. I'm thinking this is normal?

 

same here I have brand new clutch and tranny, still does same thing at high rpms.

 

Maybe

 

^ Yes, that smell can be described as slight oil burning smell. I do have slight oil residue on my valve covers. I had that since I first got my car. Since there's no oil dripping, I can't do much even if I complained about it.