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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2009

Rough idle on a cold morning, along with some oil smoke for good measure.

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  • It's just the type of oil you use. I live in Austria where it's hot in summer and cold in winter and my mx5/miata starts well in winter. It's running a bit rough the first seconds after starting if it's very cold. Read your cars manual, there's a table showing different oil types (SAE-viscosity) over ambient temperature. If you choose the right one the car starts easy in winter, if not it's as you've shown in the video - the oil is too ductile at this temperature, so the allocation isn't ok.

  • Actually it started the rough idling (when cold) after I installed Toyota Supra injectors, they were cheap and are not really the perfect solution, but it keeps it from going lean under full boost.

  • How is the oil pressure?

  • It's a 1995 so it has that shit 'go/no go' oil gauge, so to answer you question, I have no idea. I just put new pistons in the motor I melted a few years ago, and will soon swap it in.

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  • who the hell would want to live there. that guy looks like hes freezing his balls off

  • where i live, its -30 in winter, my miata starts

  • I'll find out soon, I plan on pulling the motor in the next 2 weeks or so..

  • HI Bowerso,

    Do you find the cause for the smoke on cold?

    the engine consume too much oil?

  • bella

  • I live just outside of Philadelphia PA. Not really a cold climate all the time, but a few times a year it gets pretty bitter. This video doesn't show it, but sometimes it runs really rough (close to stalling) for about 20-30 seconds when it's super cold out.

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