Here's the real deal on the DS' "smoking" issues....

Now I will not refute the observation made about the one that stalled and when started puffed blue smoke that probably did happen and can happen.

Here's the deal, when the DS gets heated up under racing conditions, and especially when you get mud caked up in the radiator, it will run hot....not failure hot, but hot enough to cause the overflow bottle to start to spit coolant out, and where does it go???? Right on to the head. 99% of the steam or "smoke" you actually see is just that, steam from the overflow squirtin the motor. Now this does look bad and perhaps they need to address this aesthetically, but the last time one of race motors did that, they pulled it apart after the race and verified nothing was wrong with the motor, just excess coolant spraying the head.

Again, not sayin the DS is failureproof, but there is a valid explanation to most of the "smoking motors" people have seen.


TPR