I can't describe the smell, but all I know is that it's not the smell of the rubber. It's more like rotten eggs or something. It seems to happen every so often when I am pushing the car hard.

Should I bring it into the dealer to check it out?

 

My Friend, change your transmission fluid. That stuff starts to smell like butt when its gets old and you punch the throttle. Good Luck..

 

My max stinks above 6K because the fuel mixture becomes extremely rich.

 

it's normal; you're just smelling the reaction the cats have with the slight amount of unburnt fuel passing through your catalytic converters.

 

I get this smell too. I always thought it was just the cat?

 

Nick you have a 5spd. Usually Autos make this smell on old tranny fluid. Now, the Cat can cause this smell also but Usually it doesn't come inside the car unless you have a Exhaust leak.

 

You know come to think of it- i dont think ive had this smell in the past week since I fixed my exhust leak (and MAN did that make a difference in the sound... with the leak my car sounded like a tractor!)

 

Nick You left that little detail out on your first post

 

Hey Ali, Do you think that maybe just maybe he cant drive a stick very well. Burnt clutch smells lovely........

 

are you sure you are not smelling the load you drop in your pants everytime you floor it?

 

heeheheh, im not sure though. I am going to go test it now... ill let the engie warm up adn the floor and it a few times and see if i still smell it. It smells like Sulfer.

 

Yeah, change the fluid. If you had an auto, I'd say it was band burn, but the MTX probably doesn't have the same problem...maybe...I don't know lol.

 

Has anyone noticed that he has a 2K2 6-spd? Although I have the same smell on my 2K1 5-spd when I romp on it.

 

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I have noticed this too - it starts right at the end of 3rd gear, if I have been at WOT since a stop, and continues untill I back off. (I really noticed it when I hit 120 that one time....I was in fourth, whatever rpm that would be)

 

I have a 2k2 auto(1600 miles) and have gaged a few times on a smell that cant possibly eminate from the car but does.Smelled it when I first started it up one morning and again a week later when I shut her off.God awful smell to.No idea what it could be or what caused it.

 

ITS YOUR CAT. All cats smell like that. I like the way it smells

 

I've noticed that smell sometimes also and I just had my auto tranny fluid changed. Only happens if I floor it a few times in a short period of time.

 

it's not the auto tranny... it's the cats and rich a/f mixture causing the smell.

 

i noticed it last week when i was racing my friend's s/c prelude and another friend in his dad's SL600. i didnt smell it while we were running but when we were stopped or just crusing i noticed it. its not old tranny fluid because my car only has 1800 miles on it.