It was a smell like burning plastic, and what looked like steam coming out from under the air cleaner lid. I took the lid off and there was all this smelly smoke pouring out of the TBI. It eventually burned itself off and never affected the way the car ran. I haven't touches the TBI in months, I have no idea what happened.

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coolent leak?? i dunno
after i put antifreez in my car today, i neglected to put the cap on, oops and when i started up the car and reved it, antifreeze everywehere, smoke everywhere ahhhh

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Trent
---Car---
89 Firebird/305 L03 TBI A4/t-tops
Open Element Edelbrock Aircleaner w/ K&N air filter/Summit Chrome Valve Covers
Edelbrock TES headers 3" out/flowmaster American thunder 3" exaust/Catco cat
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Pioneer DEH-P730 Premium
Infinity 2way 4652 4x6's/Pioneer 4way ts-a6985 6x9's
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What type air filter do you have? If its an Edelbrock pro-flow (triangular with sponge filter) then it could've back fired and briefly ignited or scorched the filter media.

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89 RS V8,Borg-Warner 9-Bolt rear,Open element,Flowmaster.

 

It a K&N filter in the stock air cleaner setup. (Yeah, I know open element coming soon.)

How could antifreeze get into the TBI?

It hasn't done it since. Oh well. Maybe some sort of critter crawled in there or something.

 

theres a hose that goes into and out of the intake manifold, was it comming right from the tbi, ok ill shut up, im stupid

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Trent
---Car---
89 Firebird/305 L03 TBI A4/t-tops
Open Element Edelbrock Aircleaner w/ K&N air filter/Summit Chrome Valve Covers
Edelbrock TES headers 3" out/flowmaster American thunder 3" exaust/Catco cat
---Stero---
Pioneer DEH-P730 Premium
Infinity 2way 4652 4x6's/Pioneer 4way ts-a6985 6x9's
profile cl640 110x4

 

When my car was running rich and I mean RICH (just ask BlackBird 305)it would smoke when I opened the Blades up on the TB. Check in to that.

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1989 RS Camaro
305ci TBI
Mods:
Hedman Header
Highflow Cat
3inch catback pipe
FlowMaster 80 Series Muffler
14x3 Open Air Element
8.5 HighTemp Spark Plug Wires
4.7 Ohm Reistor
Torque Converter Lock Up switch
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