When I have drivin my I30 to the max, I smell this burning smell when I get out of the car, it aint the clutch, cause when I drive hard I only drop the clutch and don't let it slip, I don't think it's the tires either, cause I don't spin 'em (kinda hard to spin them when you have VLSD, or you have to be such a morron to really wanting to spin 'em). Do I have to be worried? The engine had ran somewhat over 160 k miles

 

mine does the same i think its a combination of the heated rubber of your tires, and just the engine being worked, i mean there is combustion, i wouldnt really worry too much, but check your car out make sure everything is in good condition

 

Only thing wrong is that one of my belts is squealing again... god damnit... second time this year, I think it's the AC belt... AGAIN!

 

The tires...especially if new...can have a "burning" type of smell. Are you sure it's not your brakes that you're smelling? I hit the dragon over the weekend (www.tailofthedragon.com) and the couple times I stopped I could smell my brakes.

 

I could easily be your clutch. It can be slightly slipping even when engaged.

 

everything tends to have a unique smell when i burns.....the brakes pads will produce a certain smell, coolant(due to a leak) has a very unique smell when it burns, try and locate where the smell is coming from and go from there

 

wait ur belts speels? does this happen when your turn your car on in colder weather. like it goes EEEEEEEEEEEEEE, and then its fine? kinda like the belt sounds like its skipping

 

yeah subxero my car does the same thing. brakes too befrore they get warmed up. I thought this was normal.

 

Even when it is warmed up I can hear a whining noise, and it comes from the left side on the enginebay, so I gues it's one of the belts that causes it. Yesterday someone in a Sunny GTI asked me if I had a supercharger, I told him "No, but I DO have airconditioning " lol...

The burning smell, I can't really locate it from one particular system, but it's the strongest when I open the hood.

 

It could also be your exhaust. In my g20t, when i drive really hard, and do alot of WOTs the exhaust gives off this weird smell. Kinda like a light skunk smell. The other day, i was messing around with this camaro ss on the back roads and when i got a chance to finally stop, the exhaust fumes were terrible.

 

My car does not smell like a skunk, it smells like when you light a match and blow it out before the wooden stick has really burned.

 

That's a "sulfur" smell. Catalytic converter probably needs replaced.

 

God damn it... well, think I'll weld myself a test pipe then... a lot cheaper, or I'll go with a high flow catalytic converter.. there goes the money reserved for a Y-pipe and headers :'( fu(k....

 

u shouldnt worry sabout the belt though. the guy down at the shop said tis fine, obviously my car is a 96 and if it sbeen doing it for along old time and i havent or the person b4 me didnt have a prob its fine